Holy Spirit, help me live worthy of my calling in humility, gentleness and patience…

 
Ephesians 4:1-13

 
Each of us has a calling, a vocation, a calling into a state in life. Whether called to be a single person, a married person, a parent, a priest or a vowed or consecrated person, all baptized believers are called to ministers of the Good News of the saving Grace of God in Christ Jesus.  We also have professional ‘callings’ that we undertake in our lives, but because we are human ‘beings’ and not human ‘doings’ it is the our intrinsic calling as a beloved son or daughter of Father God that requires that we ‘live life worthy of our calling.’ This means that we live life as Jesus did, and as Mary his Mother, his Stepfather Joseph, and all saintly people before an since have lived – with Humility, Gentleness and Patience – not to mention Courage and Diligence!  Will I allow the Holy Spirit of God to help me live in a way that reflects not self-centredness, but the openness of a humble attitude to life; not using the strident power that is ours by being made in the image of God, but in the  open gentleness of a quiet and waiting spirit; not with impatience and ‘galloping away on wild horses’, but steadily and firmly walking the path that God has crafted for my life as a parent, a single person, or a religious sister or brother?   Holy Spirit, help me live worthy of my calling in humility, gentleness and patience.  
                                    
The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
(Psalm 145: 8 )
 
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible… It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability that counts.
Corrie Ten Boom
 
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