Music is God's best gift to us.
The only art of heaven given to earth,
the only art of earth we take to heaven.
- Letitia E. Landon
(What kind of music helps you to become more peaceful and open to God? Resolve to be blessed by this music today.)
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EX 3:13-20; PS 105:1 AND 5, 8-9, 24-25, 26-27
MT 11:28-30
Jesus said:
"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart;
and you will find rest for yourselves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."
Reflection on the Scriptures |
The Gospel passage speaks quite clearly to me. If I am willing to lay my burdens on Christ’s shoulders I can have rest. It doesn’t say our troubles will go away but we will become lightened of our burdens. So in recent months I’ve had a daughter marry and with that come my own anxieties for her future. Perhaps this is irrational, but a worry none the less. I’ve seen friends
younger than me die and others that received badly diagnoses. My immediate reaction to this news is “should I be expecting the same soon.” The reality is that these and many other irrational fears can be dealt with. The answer is coming to Christ and laying everything on His shoulders. When I do this, I truly can live a life with my yoke lightened.
by Joe Zaborowski
Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of Norwich
Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 60
“The Kind, loving, Mother”
This fair lovely word Mother, it is so sweet and so close in Nature of itself that it may not verily be said of none but of Him; and to her that is very Mother of Him and of all. To the property of Motherhood belongeth natural love, wisdom, and knowing; and it is good: for though it be so that our bodily forthbringing be but little, low, and simple in regard of our spiritual forthbringing, yet it is He that
doeth it in the creatures by whom that it is done. The Kindly, loving Mother that witteth and knoweth the need of her child, she keepeth it full tenderly, as the nature and condition of Motherhood will. And as it waxeth in age, she changeth her working, but not her love. And when it is waxen of more age, she suffereth that it be beaten in breaking down of vices, to make the child receive virtues and graces. This working, with all that be fair and good, our Lord doeth it in them by whom it
is done: thus He is our Mother in Nature by the working of Grace in the lower part for love of the higher part. And He willeth that we know this: for He will have all our love fastened to Him. And in this I saw that all our duty that we owe, by God’s bidding, to Fatherhood and Motherhood, for [reason of] God’s Fatherhood and Motherhood is fulfilled in true loving of God; which blessed love Christ worketh in us. And this was shewed in all [the Revelations] and especially in the high plenteous
words where He saith: It is I that thou lovest.
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