Mimi – My Promise for 2025
What prevents me from preferring nothing whatever to Christ?
Because I know that I am special I expect things to go my way. I like to be the center of attention and also tell my sister, Novice Felicity, what to do. I don’t do what I don’t want to do.
Practices from the Rule to help me craft my promise:
“The second step of humility is that we love not our own will nor take pleasure in the satisfaction of our desires; rather we shall imitate by our actions that saying of Christ’s: I have come not to do my own will, but the will of the One who sent me”(John 6:38).” RB 7.31-32
“Now that we have asked God who will dwell in the holy tent, we have heard the instruction for dwelling in it, but only if we fulfill the obligations of those who live there. We must, then, prepare our hearts and bodies for the battle of holy obedience to God’s instructions. What is not possible to us by nature, let us ask the Holy One to supply by the help of grace.” Prologue 39-41
“Obedience is a blessing to be shown by all, not only to the prioress and abbot but also to one another, since we know that it is by this way of obedience that we go to God.” RB 71.1-2
My 2025 Promise:
I will strive to notice when I dig in my paws. I will accept what is being asked of me, knowing that my obedience is the way that I go to God. And I promise not to boss my sister Felicity. Instead, I will refrain from meowing instructions.
What my human needs to learn to help her prefer nothing whatever to Christ:
Take life as it comes and enjoy every moment of it.
Practices from the Rule to help my human craft her promise:
“Let us open our eyes to the light that comes from God, and our ears to the voice from the heavens that every day calls out this charge: If you hear God’s voice today, do not harden your hearts” (Ps. 95:8). Prologue 9-10
“What is more delightful than this voice of the Holy One calling to us? See how God’s love shows us the way of life.” Prologue 19-20
“Do not be daunted immediately by fear and run away from the road that leads to salvation. It is bound to be narrow at the outset. But as we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on the path of God’s commandments, our hearts overflowing with the inexpressible delight of love.” Prologue 48-49
My Human’s 2025 Promise:
Mimi asks you to join him and craft your own 2025 Promise.