Holy Spirit of God, guide me as I meditate on your law…

 
Psalm 1 

 
The ‘law’ of God is much broader than the Ten Commandments. Embracing all of Mercy and Truth, the law of the Lord is the foundation of all scriptures, of the natural world, and the happiness - the blessedness - of humanity. The ‘law’ of God is the operating system that allows ‘programs’ of compassion, creativity and consolation to operate, that repairs and renovates the effects of sin in the world, and that protects individuals, communities, and nations from injustice and sin-full dispositions. When I love and meditate on the law of God, my  mind can rest in, and embrace, the Graces of Life and Love and Light that I, as a beloved child of God, am designed to engage with all of my being.  What operating system am I using in my life? Am I meditating on the law of God, or on the carnal laws of power, possessions and success and all the confining and sinful programs they spawn? Holy Spirit of God, guide me as I meditate on your law.     
 
I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.   (Jeremiah 17:10)
 
This is the hour in which each one of us has to go very deeply into ourselves. We have to begin a pilgrimage, and see to it that our pilgrimage really is a straightening of the ways of the Lord into our lives.
Catherine Doherty, Season of Mercy, Prepare for Lent
 
Soli ad gloriam
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