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Doing the Will of God

"For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother ." These words are from today's gospel reading and come from the third chapter of Mark. This was spoken by Jesus to the crowd that had gathered. Jesus tells us that we are all called to be heirs to the Kingdom of God. In order to be heirs, we must become part of the family of our Heavenly Father. We must be brothers, sisters,and mothers to Jesus in order to inherit the Kingdom. How do we become members of the Heavenly Family? Jesus simply states that we must do the will of God. In the words of St Francis De Sales, whose Feast Day is today, "So live wholly according to the spirit,... live sweetly and in peace. Be quite confident that God will help you, and in all that happens, rest in the arms of His Mercy and Fatherly goodness."

God's First Language

According to St John of the Cross, God's first language is silence. It is in silence that God speaks to us. According to Devin Schadt, author of Joseph's Way: The Call to Fatherly Greatness, to become like God we must know God; to know God we must communicate with Him; and to communicate with him we must speak His language- the language of silence. God gives us the opportunity to communicate with Him in silence with every breath we take. Through God's design, every breath we breathe in is an opportunity for silence. God designed us to speak as we breathe out, not in. He designed us to be silent as we breathe in, not out. Each and every breath we breathe in is an opportunity to listen to God in that moment of silence. It is through His divine genius that He allows us to be in communication with him in each and every moment. In Matt Redman's song, Your Grace Finds Me , one particular line stands out: " I'm breathing in Your grace and breathing out Your prais...

God Carries Out His Plan

As a hard- headed child of God, I quite often have the tendency to try to understand Him and His ways on my own. It is amazing how many times I try to reinvent the "Catholic Wheel". In the course of trying to wrap my mind around the true meaning of divine providence, I finally wised up and decided to consult an underutilized source from my bookshelf: The Catechism of the Catholic Church. The following passages on divine providence are taken directly from the Catechism. There is no other source outside of Holy Scriptures that can explain it better. GOD CARRIES OUT HIS PLAN: DIVINE PROVIDENCE 302 Creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. the universe was created "in a state of journeying" (in statu viae) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call "divine providence" the dispositions by which God guides his creatio...

Trustful Surrender

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