In the ordinary

Raindrops on dandelion.

You may be wrong when you say that being religious is difficult. The truth is there is only one thing required of you--total faithfulness to God.

This devotion can become a part of your life in active and passive ways. You are actively loyal to God when you keep his commandments. Passive loyalty is a loving acceptance of whatever God sends you every moment of every day.

God does not require of us more than we can deliver. Could anything be fairer or more sensible? He will not push you beyond your strength and capacity.

Your life is made up of innumerable trivial activities. If they are done in the right spirit, this is enough to satisfy God. We do our part and God does the rest....

This is what it means to be holy. It may be difficult to see, but there is nothing hidden or secret about it. God offers holiness to us everywhere, all the time. We will receive it in great quantity from both friends and enemies. There is no better way to be "religious" than by finding God in everything that comes our way each moment.

--Jean-Pierre de Caussade,
Abandonment to Divine Providence

Receptivity

Picture source.

In the state of abandonment the only duty is the rule of the present moment. In this the soul is light as a feather, liquid as water, simple as a child, active as a ball in receiving in receiving and following all the inspirations of grace. Such souls have no more consistence and rigidity as molten metal. As this takes any mould into which it is poured, so these souls are pliant and easily receptive of any form that God chooses to give them....[T]hey have confidence in God, they abandon themselves to Him, and, entirely absorbed by their duty, they think not of themselves, not what may be necessary for them, not of how to obtain it.

from Abandonment to Divine Providence, p 66.

--Jean Pierre de Caussade