Daily Thoughts: A I read today’s
Gospel (Luke 12:54-59) as I prepared to celebrate mass this morning I could not
help but think of one of my favorite says by Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
S.J = “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we
shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the
history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
Jesus seems to be saying the same thing.
As human beings we seem to get caught up, become fascinated, with the things
around us and in doing so we often miss the most important. We know what will
happen when the wind blows out of certain direction. For example the last few
days here in the east we had a northeast wind meaning it was blowing in off the
ocean, so we had three days of rain and there is nothing wrong with knowing and
understanding how nature works. However, Jesus’ and Fr. Teilhard de Chardin’s
points are that there is something great, something more important, something
more value to life and because we are busy about other things we miss it.
If as a Church, a nation, a culture, a
society, a world we could put our efforts into harnessing the energies of God’s
love we would discover fire for a second time in history and how important was
it the first time! The energies of God’s love are all around us but we are so
busy with other seemingly important things that we most often miss the chance
to encounter God’s love. We miss the opportunity to make God’s love part of our
lives.
My suggestion the Friday morning to all
is that we take sometime today to pause and look around ourselves. Look past
the obvious, the usual, the everyday. Look for the gift of God in our lives as
it comes to us in so many different and life-giving ways. Discover it. Acknowledge
it. Breathe it in. Embrace it. Celebrate it. Be thankful for it. And share it!
Have a great Friday everyone!
Daily Prayer: We believe,
Lord, but let us believe more firmly. We hope, Lord, but let us hope more
surely. We love, Lord, but let us love more warmly. We repent, Lord, but let us
repent more deeply. Lord, give us humility, patience, and charity. Teach us
goodness, knowledge, and discipline. Give us your love together with your
grace, and we will be rich enough. Our God, our Jesus, our all in all. Amen
(Adapted from a prayer by St. Anthony Mary Claret)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “At first an
ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread,
or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship. (Benjamin
Cheever)
So to in the spiritual when talking
about prayer!
Daily Blessing: TGIF everyone!
I hope your day has started off well. It looked like the sun was going to make
its way out from behind the clouds but the clouds have thickened again as they
continue to roll in from the northeast. Our nor’easter of the last few days
continues to hang on. Hopefully it will move further north at some point we
will see the sun today.
I will be sitting at home today waiting
for the dishwasher repair person. It has only been two weeks since it broke and
he or she will arrive sometime between 1:00 and 5:00 pm and with my luck it
will be 4:59 pm! He or she will probably not have the part and it will be
another week or two before it gets fixed but that is life I guess. Good thing
we don’t have a lot of dishes.
Once again I will take my daily blessing
from the words of St. Paul that we find in our first reading from his Letter to
the Ephesians. – And so my friends I pray that God will bless all of you today
with the strength to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received,
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with everyone you meet
through love, always striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the
bond of peace; remembering that we are one Body, one Spirit, and that we are
called to one Hope; that we believe in one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one
God and Father of us all, who is over all and through all and in all. May our
one God bless us all today and always! Amen! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul
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