A personal blog encouraging reflection on our lives, and fire in our hearts.
“Between the worldly genius and the saint is that one achieves only a moment of happiness, while the other receives the greatest happiness possible in this life and perfect happiness in the next.”
St Maximilian Kolbe
We all have it in our reach to imitate Saints. I say this all the time. The Saints I tend to have started to look at were ones in serious breach of God’s outline for us. Some had some really bad tempers, and worldly addictions, some were thieves and even persecutors. Some Saints thought ” they were doing it right,” then something clicked in them, Oh “God didn’t want this, he wanted THIS. Got it, I’ll fix it.” So as I drew closer, and began to visit the church a little more, look at people in a different light a little more often, and giving a little of my time in service each week, I thought to myself perhaps I can be like a saint if God will allow me. I began to turn to the Blessed Mother because after all, she experienced great joy and great pain, and I found I could turn to her to help me. And this desire, I will share, grew out of a pain that was presented to me last year. In this last year, there hasn’t been a day that I haven’t had a conversation with Our Father and Our Blessed Mother. A gentle light has sparked inside me. In today’s reading, the message was this: Our failures do not disqualify us from God’s love. So in that spirit, knowing that we are all broken in some way, we can feel peace knowing that we can help and love others. We can be like everyday Saints!
If the practice of prayer is not part of your day, it can be awkward to ” get into it.” A good place to start is with silence. You don’t have to go into a church; it can be outside in the quiet of your own garden, or even under the moon and stars. Just let your mind settle and greet God. Keep doing it. It doesn’t have to be elaborate, or elegant. I also greet Mary, and ask her to help me be a better daughter to the Father first, and to let me acquire her gentleness, her love in what I do.
When I first prayed a rosary, it was awkward, and I was like, ” I feel nothing.” I realize now that I felt that way because my relationship with the Father was so distant. Now when I recite the Our Father and the Hail Mary, my eyes are closed, my fingers roll the bead marker, and I am totally present. After that, I offer up my petitions. When I’m done, I begin…
Thoughts for Next Time…
What Causes us to lose our faith?
How can we impact our own families?
How can we focus on what truly is important around the coming holidays?
History of Saints and their feast days.
Be Like Everyday Saints 