Daily Thoughts: “A [person]
knows when he [or she] has found his [or her] vocation when he [or she] stops
thinking about how to live and begins to live.” (Thomas Merton) I think this is a good quote for our Gospel reading
today. The 12 apostles (Matt. 10:1-7) begin to live today and in doing so they
find out what God has in store for them.
Isn’t this true for all of us? In living
we uncover, we find, we experience, we become who God calls us to be. At mass
this morning I told the people that a verse from John’s Gospel came to mind as
I reflected upon the Gospel, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and
appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit – fruit that will last” (John
15:16). The twelve were chosen by God and in the Gospel today they take their
first step in living out that call, they bring the gift of God to the people
that they encounter.
The challenge today for us is – Are we
living out our call? And what gift are we offering the world today? Have a
great Wednesday everyone and don’t forget to make a joyful noise with your life
today!
Daily Prayer: O God, you have
called us to serve you today. You have asked some work of us today that you
have not asked of others. We have a mission, a call, a meaning to our life
today and we may never know its fruit fully. We are a link in your chain of
life, a bond of connection between your people. Help us today to do good, to do
your work, to be an angel of peace, a preacher of the Good News in our own way.
Grace us with the gift of hope that we can share with whomever we meet. Amen!
A Runner’s Thoughts: Let’s run in a
spirit of gratefulness today. Before we begin our run let’s declare our
intention to look upon all we encounter with the freshness of the unexpected.
Let us run with a sense of miraculous expectation and allow a feeling of
gratitude for the extraordinary and the ordinary to flow through our being. As
we run today let us be thankful to God for life! (Adapted from Roger Joslin –
Running the Spiritual Path)
Daily Blessing: Guess what day
it is? Guess what – day it is? It is Hump Day - Wednesday so Happy Hump Day and
Wednesday blessings to all!
Things are going along just fine here in
Mount Holly and I am staying out of trouble and this is a good thing. I hope
your Hump Day is going well, if not and you are having a few bumps in the road
please know of my prayers for you. I have had a lot of practice praying for
bumps in the road!
My prayer of blessing is that your
afternoon and evening will be blessed with God’s peaceful presence and that your
work, your encounters with others, your travel and your return home will be
graced with a true sense of faith, hope, joy and love. Have a great Wednesday afternoon
and evening everyone – enjoy the rest of the day as best you can and remember
you are a gift and you make everyone’s day that you meet better! Peace in
Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul
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