Altar of Sacrifice

The only way to truly reach union with God is by learning to accept, day by day, the actual conditions and tests permitted by God, by a continual and repeated laying down of our own will and acceptance of His as it is presented to us in the form of the people with whome we have to live and work and in the things which happen to us...Every acceptance of His will becoems an altar of sacrifice and every such surrender and abandonment of ourselves to His will is a means of furthering our union with Him.  - From Hinds Feet on High Places...