It came to me one morning, in the middle of my daily To Do List, that 'integrity has no intent.' I did not comprehend this message immediately. For me, intention made me who I was and what I believed in. My motivations deeply mattered. Then over the months I began to observe, just glimpse, what those words meant. The Father does the works...if I completely open to His care. My only action is surrender out of love; it is not to do or achieve anything else. The one virtue is "kidding" myself, allowing for the grace "to become as a little child." A child's innocence is unintended. If I need to think about being patient or honest or caring and then act accordingly, believing this is how a Christian should act, I miss the mark. Such "acting" has to die to "becoming" as Christ, and for that, again, surrender is the only path. I am to live by inspiration, not motivation. I am to become simply a means without ends.
This way is still new to me and still occasional, but it is an entirely new outlook that I feel can only be gotten by grace. No merit.