Reflection
Each of us is a little word of the Word of God, a mini-incarnation of divine love. The journey inward requires surrender to this mystery in our lives and this means letting go of our control buttons. It means dying to the untethered selves that occupy us daily; it means embracing the sufferings of our lives, from the little sufferings to the big ones, it means allowing God’s grace to heal us, hold us, and empower us for life. It means entering into darkness, the unknowns of our lives, and learning to trust the darkness, for the tenderness of divine love is already there. It means being willing to sacrifice all that we have for all that we can become in the power of God’s love; and finally it means to let God’s love heal us of the opposing tensions within us.
Ilia Delio
Prayer
In God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
Psalm 56:3-4
Action
Reflect on the passage above. What does it mean for you?
Suggested Reading
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to God’s purpose.
Romans 8:28
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10
Being Christian isn’t easy and we cannot become Christian with our own strength; we need the grace of God.
Pope Francis
We feel the ground slipping from beneath our feet, and we want to hold on and stay in control. And so we organize and define (that is, put limits around) what first moved freely within us, flowed out of us, and motivated our action. We also dismiss, with varying degrees of harshness, what does not fit into the pattern we so painstakingly created for our God experience.
Barbara Fiand
Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
Walter Brueggemann.
The whole purpose of wrestling with God is to be transformed into the self we were meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.
Joan Chittister
Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
Karl Rahner
God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.
Elizabeth A. Johnson