Good morning…
As we move through this first month of this brand new year, we are repeatedly reminded that the world’s ways oppose the ways of God. War. Greed. Violence. Injustice. Innocent death after innocent death. How are we to respond? Becoming a vessel of healing light and resurrected life in today’s toxic times, we deepen down into our innermost being to be transformed by the love of God alive in us.
“Accustom yourself to the wonderful thought that God loves you with a tenderness, a generosity, and an intimacy which surpasses all your dreams,” said French priest Henri de Tourville. “Give yourself up with joy to a loving confidence in God and have courage to believe firmly that God’s action towards you is a masterpiece of partiality and love. Rest tranquilly in this abiding conviction.”
As we rest tranquilly in the tender generosity of God, our prayers expands out into this wounding world.
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth.
I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love.
Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights!
Live full lives, full in the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:14-19, MSG).
The world desperately needs us to live full lives, full in the fullness of the God who loves us all.
…Sue…
