Holy Spirit, help me have courage and find where the Lord has gone before me…

Deuteronomy 31:1-8 
 
Holy Spirit, help me have courage and find where the Lord has gone before me…
 
In Moses’ absence, Joshua had a huge task before him – to lead God’s less-than-perfect people across the Jordan River into the promised land. In a similar way the ‘assignments’ of lives lie before us. Yesterday, after weeks of dry weather a torrential rainstorm broke sending sheets of wind-driven rain pelting down. Praying this GMD and noting the cloud cover, I had driven to church, unafraid because I was going to where God was before me.  This mid-summer storm, like the storms of my life, drummed the roof of the church and roared and cracked around all of us who were gathered to receive Holy Communion, the very substance of Christ Himself, in the peace and light of God’s Mercy. Such peace and light and communion is always available to us when we take the time to mindfully choose to go where God has gone before us. Will I have the courage to head out on the day’s journey, despite the clouds? Will I have the wisdom to look for where God is, and then have the presence of mind to go there, no matter what storms of life are raging around me? Holy Spirit, help me have courage and find where the Lord has gone before me. 
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually.  (Psalm 105:4)
 
The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty.  He does all things in his time.
St. Vincent de Paul
 
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