Holy Spirit help me consider Jesus so I might not grow weary and lose heart ...

Gospel Mystery of the Day              Tuesday, February 5, 2018
                                                                                                          
Good Morning!      
Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path. (Psalm 119)
 
Hebrews 12:1-4                                                          
 

 
When trials of life come along, it is ‘normal’ to grow weary and lose heart and so to fall prey to despair and revenge or even acedia*.  But Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith showed us a different way. ‘For the joy that was set before him’, Jesus not only endured the hostility of the fickle crowds of Judea, and a tortuous death on a cross, but he was also able to disregard and rise above its shame.  My own cross of rejection, abuse, and abandonment is no less real for me than Jesus’ Roman cross was for him.  Will I fight my cross every step of the way or fall under its weight face-first into the mud of desolation, breathe in the muck of despair and vent towards others with denial or derision?  Or will I look to Jesus and learn from him how to consider the joy before me and endure all kinds of hardship? Holy Spirit, help me consider Jesus so I might not grow weary and lose heart.
 
* Acedia can be defined as the dulling of, and disengagement from, the essence of life. See: The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times. By Jean-Charles Nault, O.S.B. Ignatius Press
 
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.   (1 Corinthians 13: 7)
 
The endurance of darkness is the preparation for great light.
St. John of the Cross  
 
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