Saturday March 31, 2007
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent
March 31, 2007
“My dwelling shall be with them.”
Ezekiel 37:27
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God is always knocking, talking, revealing, pouring out, and showing forth to us. We kick him out of our schools, our families, our friendships, our lives, and our work by not praying. We have chosen other Gods and we are too busy for the only true and Living God. Because we have chosen not to seek him first above all else, we miss so much of his infinite coming to us.
A little kid would walk home from school each day. Each day on her walk home she would stop outside the bakery window to peer in and look at the donuts. One day, an elderly woman saw the little girl doing this. She went up to her and asked the girl if she would like a donut. The little girl’s eyes got big and she smiled with a “Yes!” The woman took her inside and told her to get the donut she wanted. As they were sitting down together inside eating the donuts, the little girl looked up to the woman and asked, “Are you God?” The woman joyfully responded, “No, I am not God. But I am God’s daughter and so are you. And I do know that God loves you very much.”
The little girl saw God in God’s daughter. Do we? Do we see God in all of his daughters and sons? Do we see God each time our mom/dad or someone provides a meal for us? Do we know that God is behind all the loving acts that we see each day, from the small things to the big things? Are we quick to point out that God was behind that person who held the door open for that other person just as God was behind the brother who has cared day in and day out of his special needs sister for over thirty-five years?
We need to pray. Prayer moves us from finite seeing to infinite seeing. It allows us to see the invisible motivating, guiding, and inspiring the visible. Our God, who is the invisible constantly knocking, talking, revealing, pouring out, and showing forth infinite goodness to us, is behind it all.
God dwells with us. Practice the presence of God. At the end of each day or week, write down how you have seen his dwelling among you. Be disciplined and pray about, think about, reflect, talk and write about how the invisible God is becoming more visible to you. Practice the presence of God! In all things, big and small, name that the goodness and love come from God who dwells among us. As you do this you, the finite, will fly into the infinite.
Live the confronted life!
+Fr. John
A little kid would walk home from school each day. Each day on her walk home she would stop outside the bakery window to peer in and look at the donuts. One day, an elderly woman saw the little girl doing this. She went up to her and asked the girl if she would like a donut. The little girl’s eyes got big and she smiled with a “Yes!” The woman took her inside and told her to get the donut she wanted. As they were sitting down together inside eating the donuts, the little girl looked up to the woman and asked, “Are you God?” The woman joyfully responded, “No, I am not God. But I am God’s daughter and so are you. And I do know that God loves you very much.”
The little girl saw God in God’s daughter. Do we? Do we see God in all of his daughters and sons? Do we see God each time our mom/dad or someone provides a meal for us? Do we know that God is behind all the loving acts that we see each day, from the small things to the big things? Are we quick to point out that God was behind that person who held the door open for that other person just as God was behind the brother who has cared day in and day out of his special needs sister for over thirty-five years?
We need to pray. Prayer moves us from finite seeing to infinite seeing. It allows us to see the invisible motivating, guiding, and inspiring the visible. Our God, who is the invisible constantly knocking, talking, revealing, pouring out, and showing forth infinite goodness to us, is behind it all.
God dwells with us. Practice the presence of God. At the end of each day or week, write down how you have seen his dwelling among you. Be disciplined and pray about, think about, reflect, talk and write about how the invisible God is becoming more visible to you. Practice the presence of God! In all things, big and small, name that the goodness and love come from God who dwells among us. As you do this you, the finite, will fly into the infinite.
Live the confronted life!
+Fr. John
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