Anniversary Celebration

Today marks five years that I have professed as a Third Order Carmelite. I remember the great joy I had at the day of my profession. There were a few others at this daily Mass who celebrated with me. They commented on my happiness. I still feel it, this joy, this rightness of my calling to the lay religious life. There is peace and confidence in following the will of God. Why is it I drag my feet in doing some of the other things He asks of me? I know better, yet, like St. Paul, 'I do the very thing I do not want to do.' Ah, I am learning, too slowly, to more than want, but to be willing to do His will. I live the joy in many ways. May I strive to live it in all ways.