Hello Folks,
For husbands and wives it can happen in the car, on what seems like is going to be an interminable and boring road trip. Few words are needed to be exchanged. Yet somehow during that wasted time together you figure out how much you love the one you’re married to; and in fact your love grows deeper. For parents it often happens in that “up all night” illness of your child. At some time during that tiresome night, while you are nursing your aching son or daughter, you can’t imagine not being the mother or father of this precious child. For priests, deacons, sisters, lay ministers, teachers, doctors, and other caring vocations it always happens when you get that call in the middle of the time you least want it, to go out of your way for some one or some family that you didn’t want to care for. Then you realize how wonderful and important it is that God chose you for the vocation you have.
God happens in the interruptions of our life!
Jesus calls some smelly fisherman from the Sea of Galilee to be His Apostles. These few men were to become the ones responsible for the spread of the faith to every corner of the globe. The faith that we live now came to us because of the sacrifices and lives of these surprised, flawed and doubtful first disciples. Their hesitant “Yes” to Jesus has helped save lives of people for nearly 200 years.
We begin Lent on Wednesday. Let us each make it our Lenten resolution to listen for God calling us in the voices and in the times when we are inclined to say “No”.
peace,
Fr. Chuck
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