The word of God is something alive and active:
it can judge secret emotions and thoughts. HEB 4:12
GENESIS 12:1-9 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
My Soul's Beloved,
Our lives are constantly evolving, there is always change, it is one thing that we can be certain of. How we handle that change says a great deal about the kind of people we are. Many of us grumble, are dissatisfied, and refuse to accept the new things that You are doing and accept all that comes from Your hand graciously.
Abraham was 75 years of age when You called him out of his comfort zone and instructed him to go to a place that was unknown to him among strangers and he obeyed. He took his family and all his belongings and set out according to the will of God. The blessings that he was promised, the great land and descendants as numerous as the stars were not fulfilled in his lifetime but many, many years after he was long dead and gone. Yet he is revered to this day for his great faith and as the father of faith and the father of many nations.
Truly Beloved, Your ways are not our ways, nor our Your thoughts our thoughts. It is wise and always good for us to yield willingly, obediently, joyfully, and promptly to all that You ask of us. You keep in perfect peace all who surrender their lives to You wholeheartedly.
PSALM 32(33):12-13,18-20,22 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
We are Yours. We are called by Your Name. You have called us out of darkness into Your own marvelous light. We are children of God and co-heirs with You to the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the reason why the children of God are happy - we are happy because God is with us, the Holy Spirit abides in us, and makes us His dwelling place, His sanctuary, and we are made holy because He is in us.
They are happy, whose God is the Lord,
the people he has chosen as his own.
We are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people a people who are privileged to know You, worship You, and have the wondrous hope of spending eternity with You. And while we wait, Beloved, for an end to our pilgrimage from this life to the life that is to come You care for us, You feed us on the finest wheat and the sweetest honey in the Eucharist which is Your Body and Blood which give us a foretaste of the eternal joys of heaven. Thank You, Lord, for the life-giving Sacraments that provide all the graces we need to keep us alive.
MATTHEW 7:1-5 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
Almost every one of us spends the better part of our lives judging and criticizing others, we have a holier-than-thou attitude, and by belittling others we food ourselves that we are better than them.
Today You speak to us sternly warning us that no one has the right to judge our fellow sisters and brothers. It is absolutely true, Beloved, that is we dare to point a finger at the weaknesses of others sooner or later we or those we love will fall into the very same pit and our fall will be greater than those we have criticized.
You remind us today that it would be more profitable to us if we spent our lives working out our own salvation with fear and trembling instead of nit-picking others and daring to observe the little faults in others while deceiving ourselves that we are without fault. You call us hypocrites and remind us that we would be better served if we first took out the plan from our own eye for only then we would see clearly enough to remove the splinter from the eye of our brother.
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