Encouragement: A Spirituality of memories and promises!
Monday, 10th week in Ordinary Time
2 Cor 1: 1-7; Mt 5: 1-12
Fear not, Take heart, Be firm... these are some exhortations that we find in abundance in the Word of God. St. Paul explains to us today why it is so.
As people of God and in union with God we are constantly encouraged, that is filled with courage for times that can be trying, filled with an inner joy even in the face of troubles, filled with hope even at the so called times of despair. This is so because of a past that is so filled with care and concern on the part of God and a future the seems so heavenly.
The Word today draws on the past and the future to instruct us that a life that is filed with God, the memories of God and the promises of God, will be a life of Courage and Commitment.