Monday, January 23, 2012

1/31/2012 – Tuesday of fourth week in ordinary time – 2 Samuel 18:9-10, 14b, 24-25a, 30; 19:3


         In today’s reading from the first book of Samuel, we hear about David and the death of his son Absalom.  Absalom was not a good son at all.  He did not follow God very faithfully at all as he journeyed through life.  Absalom even tried to plot the death of his own father in an attempt to become king.  Yet when news of Absalom’s death reached David, David did not rejoice, but instead cried out in his pain and his despair: “My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you.”
         Life can be very painful indeed.  Yet, we are to place our trust in the Lord even in the midst of the struggles and the pain that we endure in life. I recently was given this prayer written by Therese of Lisieux by Dr Sara Weisenberger - 

Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our father's love — difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs — everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness —

Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events — to the heart that loves, all is well.

         May we accept the graces that God gives us in our lives, whatever those graces may be.  May we feel God’s presence both in our joy and in our sorrows. 

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