REAL TALK…
I like talking to God.
I could not admit this to most people because what would they think? So instead I will just put it out here on social-media where no one will ever know. (Giggles.)
During the COVID-pandemic it took me a short-while to tune out the perpetual media-saturation – but once I broke free – the reassuring whisper of His voice could be found, once again.
It is human nature to question if the paths we have taken in life,
the choices we have made,
the gifts we have shared
are pleasing to God.
Does it come from the “Will of the Father?”
Or
the desire of our own making?
There is one way, I have found, to rest in God’s presence in these moments of discernment.
It is a simple & quiet
Peace of Heart
which allows me the assurance that
my God IS speaking.
Is this an easy thing to discern?
No!
Trust me – my logic rethinks it often; yet, if it is from Him –
He always leads me back to Peace.
It is there that I find rest,
it is then that I am comforted,
it is at last…
a trust that goes beyond knowing.
(Can there be any greater peace than that?)
Today I am re-blogging a story I wrote & posted several years ago; which depicts the surprising ways in which our Father can reveal to us whatever He may be needing us to do – as an important participation to His Master-Plan.
And I pray we may find one another
– in the midst of His Caravan of Followers–
beside the Master, together.
Scattered within the many notes of my journals I have written unannotated words of various bloggers & authors reminding me frequently how…
“We desperately need each other.”
“Jesus never intended for us to live the Christian life alone.”
“The Lord God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suited to him.”
Genesis 2:18
Yet, so often I forget just how much I need others.
Certainly I know that we need to live our lives out with others & throughout Scripture God tells us to “lift one another up!”
“And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding… “
Colossians 1:9
Indeed, “we need one another to get through this life.”
Most especially God tells us to pray for one another.
“that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.”
1 Timothy 2:1-2
Undeniably, He would not tell us to pray for one another if he didn’t intend to answer those prayers.
Continue reading “Dear Sr. Mary-Agnes,”
hugsnblessings 