Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path. (Psalm 119)
Hebrews 12:4-15 In a dog-eat-dog world, being at peace, particularly with everyone, is a liability and a sign of weakness. But we are not animals. We are human beings with the power to put our choices into effect. It makes sense to be at peace with everyone, including my inner self, but when I am being pushed and pulled by the forces of relationships and day to day occupations and pressures it is easy to defer to my own biases and perceptions and to retort with an acrid answer or passively apply aggressive pressure for others to comply with my ideologies. I need to learn that being at peace with my children, a spouse, co-workers and friends is worth more than me being ‘right’, and having all tasks being completed to my satisfaction. Being at peace with others does not mean I acquiesce to everyone’s agendas. Far from it. Indeed, being at peace with others is being who I am, and saying and doing what I am meant to do, while interacting in a peaceful, albeit truthful, way with everyone along my path. Will I snarl and growl my way through the day today, or choose to be at peace with everyone? Holy Spirit of Jesus, help me be at peace with everyone. Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that whatever is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed. (Hebrews 12:12) Wherever God has put you that is your vocation. It is not what we do, but how much love we put into it. Saint Mother Teresa of Kalcutta Soli ad gloriam Gospel Mystery of the Day on FaceBook & www.gospelmysteryoftheday.ca
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Mark 1:21-28 & Mark 5:1-20 As human beings, we are designed to be driven by light and love. To do this, we need a heart, mind and soul that is squeaky clear and clean from all ‘unclean spirits’, a.k.a. demons. All too often after doing some spiritual housecleaning, that is ‘repenting’, we let our guard down and are inveigled into unwittingly, though perhaps willingly, participate in some game of darkness. Sexual promiscuity, dabbling in the occult or willingly committing murder, aside, it is often the so-called ‘fun’ distractions of society that are the thin edge of the wedge that gives demons a foothold in our lives, soiling spirits that eventually drive any one of us away from a peaceful, joyful and fruitful life. Media of various kinds, delivered by any one of the devices in our hands and homes, crude jokes or profane language, and any of the addictions, whether substance-driven or not, can easily be inroads for unclean spirits to ‘get into’ our lives and sully our thoughts, words, and actions. This is how we can be subtly driven away from the glory and mercy of God to the dungeons of human existence, otherwise known as ‘hell’. Will I have the courage to come into the presence of Jesus to allow him to silence the unclean spirits within me, and expel them from my life? Holy Spirit of Jesus, silence and expel any unclean spirits from within me. In the shelter of your presence you hide those who revere you; you hold them safe under your shelter from contentious tongues... I had said in my alarm, “I am driven far from your sight.” But you heard my supplications when I cried out to your for help. (Psalm 31:20,22) There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still. Corrie Ten Boom Soli ad gloriam Gospel Mystery of the Day on FaceBook & www.gospelmysteryoftheday.ca |
AuthorBeverly Illauq lives in Kemptville, Ontario, where she greets each morning by seeking the Gospel Mystery of the Day - the Word of the Lord for direct and practical application to the specific challenges & joys of the day. Archives
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