May we all be the
"Blue-Print" God desires us to be even if another person thinks we are crazy for what we are doing, where we are going, how we are fulfilling our vocation. If it is God's call and we are listening to Him, optics do not matter. People even thought Jesus was crazy for fulfilling the Father's will. Maybe in our Lenten sacrifices we can offer these in prayer and love for those who lay down barriers and cast others aside, particularly because their will, idea of the future for us, etc., is not "fulfilled." When we desire God's will in each person's life, we can be sure and be peaceful and really happy instead of tense, distraught, and bitter. Lord, please let us all let go of our own wills and our "plans" for others' lives, so that it may be YOU Who lives and speaks through them in their lives, that are YOUR creations. Not our wills, but YOURS be done. But for the grace of God go I....
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And when we experience falls during Lent..."..even
sins, from which God by His goodness defends us, are reduced by Divine
Providence to good for those who belong to Him. Never would David have
been so full of humility had he not sinned, nor would Mary Magdalene
have been so full of love for her Lord if He had not remitted so many of
her sins if she had not committed them. You see, my daughter, this great architect of mercy:
He converts our miseries into grace and makes salutary medicine for our
souls from the venom of iniquities.....If God makes you fall, as He did
with Saint Paul, whom He threw to the ground, it is to raise you up to His glory." - Fr Jacques Phillipe, "Searching for and Maintaining Peace", p.90-91.
