The Lord will come, go out to meet him.
Great is his beginning and his reign will have no end.
Great is his beginning and his reign will have no end.
My Soul's Beloved,
Grant me O Lord, an ear that is always attuned to Your Voice so I may follow the path of light that leads to Your eternal dwelling place. When You speak O Lord, grant me the wisdom to be attentive to all that You say to me and grant me the grace to do all You ask of me no matter how difficult my own selfish, weak flesh might fight to resist.
Beloved, every one of the friends of God, beginning with Abraham obeyed Your commands and submitted to the will of the Father in all things. Our spiritual heritage is one that is bejeweled with the lives of those who have loved You so completely that nothing was too hard for them to do for Your Sake. They were joyful always despite the trials they faced for they yielded their lives to You and were certain that You were with them and would never forsake them.
Grant me this grace Beloved, miserable sinner that I am, to be wholly Yours so You can do with me what You will.
PSALM 1:1-4,6 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
when we are grafted to You, when we allow ourselves to be deeply rooted in You, when we build our lives on the sure foundation of Your Word, when we are imbued with grace because Your Holy Spirit makes our sinful hearts His dwelling place, it is then O my Lord and my God that Your peace flows in us like a river.
Planted in You we bear good fruit that will last. The lives of the Saints reveal that when God becomes the be-all and end-all of our lives then nothing in this life can or will faze us.
The wicked live in prosperity. They thrive by crushing every obstacle in their path ruthlessly. They seem invincible but let us not envy them for when the Day of the Lord is here it is the last and the least who willingly gave up their lives for Your sake and the sake of the Gospel who will inherit the Kingdom of God.
Anyone who follows you, O Lord, will have the light of life.
Matthew 11:16-19 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
We go for daily Mass, we attend retreats, we hear great preachers and we go back to living sinful lives. What will it take O Lord to wake us up from our collective slumber? The pandemic has not done it.
We wake up and go back to sleep day after day, week after week, year after year and our lives are ponderous, dull, grey, and uneventful. The myriad accounts of the lives of Saints witness to us the effervescent joy that radiated from them. The same joy can be ours only if we desire it so fervently that we are prepared to lose everything in order to possess it.
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