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When
a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
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Corrie Ten Boom
Trust
God with the unknowns in your life. What would these be?
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Daily Readings
1 Timothy 3:14-16
Psalm
111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 Luke 7:31-35 Jesus said to the people:
‘What description can I find for the men of this generation? What are they like? They are like children shouting to one another while they sit in the market-place:
‘“We played the pipes for you,
and you wouldn’t dance;
we sang dirges,
and you wouldn’t cry.”
‘For John the Baptist comes, not eating bread, not drinking wine, and you say, “He is possessed.” The Son of Man comes, eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.” Yet Wisdom has been proved right by all her
children.’
Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.) Luke 7:31-35 (You can’t please everyone) Some persons thought John the Baptist was fanatical in his asceticism; these same people probably believed that Jesus was excessive in his sensual enjoyments. Jesus is undaunted by these kinds of criticisms, however, for he has not come to please the crowds but to do his Father’s will. - Do you enjoy sensual pleasures when experienced appropriately? Do you seek out opportunities to experience and delight in good food, fresh
air, sunsets, hugs and kisses?
- Pray to be open to the graces that come to us through creation.
Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) ____________ BOOK VI: OF THE EXERCISES OF LOVE IN PRAYER Chapter 7: Of the loving recollection of the soul in contemplation.
Now it comes thus. Nothing is so natural to good
as to draw and unite unto itself such things as are sensible of it; as our souls do, which continually draw towards them and give themselves to their treasure, that is, what they love. It happens then sometimes that our Lord imperceptibly infuses into the depths of our hearts a certain agreeable sweetness, which testifies his presence, and then the powers, yea the very exterior senses of the soul, by a certain secret contentment, turn in towards that most interior part where is the most amiable
and dearest spouse. For as a new swarm of bees when it would take flight and change country, is recalled by a sound softly made on metal basins, by the smell of honied wine, or by the scent of some odoriferous herbs, being stayed by the attraction of these agreeable things, and entering into the hive prepared for it:--so our Saviour,--pronouncing some secret word of his love, or pouring out the odour of the wine of his dilection, more delicious than honey, or letting stream the perfumes of his
garments, that is, feelings of his heavenly consolations in our hearts, and thereby making them perceive his most welcome presence,--draws unto him all the faculties of our soul, which gather about him and stay themselves in him as in their most desired object. And as he who should cast a piece of loadstone amongst a number of needles would instantly see them turn all their points towards their well-beloved adamant, and join themselves to it, so when our Saviour makes his most delicious presence
to be felt in the midst of our hearts, all our faculties turn their points in that direction, to be united to this incomparable sweetness.
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