WORD 2day

2nd October, 2013 : Thanking the Lord for the Guardian Angels

One of the earliest things we are taught as children is the presence and the guidance of the Guardian Angel - whom we celebrate today! Somehow, personally, every time that I have heard of the guardian angels since childhood, I have felt a kind of childlike sentiment within me! It is not childish but childlike! Without a childlike simplicity, a constant presence of someone may look like an interference, an intrusion, a policing! But when we sport a disposition as that of a child, we will find ourselves longing for that presence, we will hang on every word from the Lord and remain faithful to the Lord in obedience - as the Lord instructs in the first reading today! Unless we become like children we cannot enter the Reign of God... I remember the reflection shared two days ago, which re-echoes today: though it may sound a paradox, let us grow up to be children, only then can we inherit the Reign.