“I can hang back no longer, but I am vain and fearful. Please pray that I may give back to God what he has given to me by using it to make his Love known.
I’m serious. I need prayers. It’s time to rock ‘n roll and I’m tied up in knots.”
Wow - this is EXACTLY what I have been going through for months now, but I couldn’t put my finger on it, until now.
There is a lot of suffering going on in my household (especially DH with cancer), so the Lord is giving us opportunities to offer it all up and we, hopefully, will be strengthened by all of this.
Thank you, and I will continue to pray for all of us.
Fr. Brian Mulcahy, OP, Prior Provincial of the Eastern Province of the Order of Preachers, noticed that in Gibson's movie, when our Lord dies, Mary mouths, “Amen.”
Look at this line from today's (Monday of the Second Week of Advent) reading in the Office of Readings:
From the end of the earth we hear songs:This is the year of faith. Faith and "Amen" go together.
“Splendor to the Just One!”
But I said, “I am wasted, wasted away. Woe is me!
The traitors betray: with treachery have the traitors betrayed!
There is the Love and the Power of God. These we see with the eyes of faith, given by God's grace.
There is our own wasting away and the treachery of traitors. Even to see these is sometimes a gift. Some, not so gifted, see treachery as sincerity and traitors as rescuers. Hearts which are hollow appear whole and strong to those who see only the outside.
When all we see is the uncanny stillness of death and all we feel is our own empty heart, God will move to fill our hearts with himself and to make flowers spring up where there was only stones and grit.
Exodus 14:14 -- The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be still. These are words for the broken-hearted, for the spiritually aesthenic. It is HIS might, HIS life on which we rely, and HIS hope in which we hope.