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: Come Lord! Come with us: see with our eyes, hear with our ears, think with our mind, love with our heart - in all the situations of our life. Work with our hands, our strength. Take, cleanse, posses, inhabit our will, our understanding, our love. Take us where you will, to do what you will, in your way. For where you are, there will your servants be. Amen (Adapted from a prayer by Evelyn Underhill)
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:
Friday greetings and blessings to all. I hope your day has started off well. It
is a beautiful sunny day here in Pelham but a little on the chilly side
compared to the last few days. It is
nice seeing the sun it adds some much to the beauty of fall and yes the leaves
are beginning to change colors around here.
Well
my week of playing “Home Alone” is now over as the others in the community
return home last night. It is nice having some life in the house besides myself
again though I have to say that I did enjoy my solitude also.
I
hope your week has been a good one and that you feel ready to enjoy a fall
weekend. I don’t have much on my plate these days except preparations for
missions and retreats in the future. It is the life of an itinerant preacher
sometimes you are very busy and other times not so much but there are always
things to prepare for and always new things to discover and create.
Once
again I will take my daily blessing from the words of St. Paul’s 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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