Obedience

"Obedience well lived frees us from selfishness and pride and so helps us to find God and, in him, the whole world. Obedience is a special grace, and it produces unfailing peace, inward joy, and close union with God.

Obedience transforms small, commonplace things and occupations into acts of living faith, and faith in action is love, and love in action is service of the loving God. Obedience lived with joy creates a living awareness of the presence of God, and so fidelity to acts of obedience become like drops of oil that keep the light of Jesus aflame in our life."

From "Total Surrender" - writings of Mother Teresa