"Nothing that happens to us is the end of possibilities. Every experience is a challenge to find God in a new situation, a new environment. Wherever life brings us, God is there close by. He is always to be found where we happen to be now, not where we would like to be." (Sacred Space)
I enjoy this quotation from the Irish Jesuits. It is a definition of mindfulness. By practising mindfulness one is present 'now'. One seeks to bind ones attention to the moment in which it finds itself. How does 'now' feel? How am i reacting to all that occurs without me and within in this now? Am i aware that God is with me in this moment?
The awe of this thought is at once overwhelming, terrifying, joyous. All i have to do is reach out and touch Him because He is here!
So why don't i reach out all the time? At every moment? Do i forget that His is here? Would i rather He wasn't here because i am ashamed at something i thought, said or did? The Trinity is a promise that we shall never be alone. I just have to say 'yes'.
"only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven" (Mt 7:21) shall enter His Kingdom, Jesus tells us in today's mass reading. Nothing for show, not bowing and muttering for the benefit of others, but actually becoming a better person through and with and in the Trinity. Making a personal effort and sustaining that effort through rain, flood and wind.
Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock (Mt 7:24)
Lord, let me hear and act on your wisdom that my house be strong and resilient, that my faith might as a mustard seed sown in good soil that grows to be a great, sheltering tree and that that tree may bear good fruit for all in your name. Amen.
Deo gratias.
I enjoy this quotation from the Irish Jesuits. It is a definition of mindfulness. By practising mindfulness one is present 'now'. One seeks to bind ones attention to the moment in which it finds itself. How does 'now' feel? How am i reacting to all that occurs without me and within in this now? Am i aware that God is with me in this moment?
The awe of this thought is at once overwhelming, terrifying, joyous. All i have to do is reach out and touch Him because He is here!
So why don't i reach out all the time? At every moment? Do i forget that His is here? Would i rather He wasn't here because i am ashamed at something i thought, said or did? The Trinity is a promise that we shall never be alone. I just have to say 'yes'.
"only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven" (Mt 7:21) shall enter His Kingdom, Jesus tells us in today's mass reading. Nothing for show, not bowing and muttering for the benefit of others, but actually becoming a better person through and with and in the Trinity. Making a personal effort and sustaining that effort through rain, flood and wind.
Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock (Mt 7:24)
Lord, let me hear and act on your wisdom that my house be strong and resilient, that my faith might as a mustard seed sown in good soil that grows to be a great, sheltering tree and that that tree may bear good fruit for all in your name. Amen.
Deo gratias.
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