A little boy and his mother were crossing the River..
MOTHER: “Please hold my…hand.”
BOY: “No, Mom, you hold my hand.”
MOTHER: “What’s the difference, my son?”
BOY: “If I hold your hand and something happens to me…chances are I may let your hand go…But if you hold my hand….I know for sure,
you will never let me go.”
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.
Lent is the season in which we focus on moral correction, aligning ourselves with the commandments of Jesus.
They are summed up in loving God with all one’s might and loving one’s neighbor as one’s self.
Jesus details what this means in various contexts in the Lenten gospels.
And He wills to heal our blindness to our sins, especially those habitual sins we rationalize or despair of amending.
Jesus, God among us, through his glory was willing to die for us.
How often have we thanked Him for this?
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