JUST FOLLOW - no matter what is in store!

WORD 2day: 8th January, 2018 

Monday, Week 1 in Ordinary Time

1 Sam 1:1-8; Mk 1: 14-20

After a long while we are back to the Ordinary time and the very first message that the Word gives is so relevant. In our life's journey, that which can grant us an incredible serenity is the attitude of Following the Lord, without being worried too much about what is in store! 

We have just begun a new year a week ago and while thinking of projects that engage our days, it is normal that many things preoccupy our minds. We wonder what is in store, at times even try to foresee them with our capacity to project the future, or some weird means of foretelling. All these are signs of anxiety regarding what is in store! 

Samuel's story that we begin to reflect on from today, affirms to us that God has a definitive plan for each of us; as the Lord would explain through Jeremiah in Jer 29:11: for I know the plans that I have for you! God alone knows and that is where the beauty lies. 

The secret of the serenity that is asked of us, consists in not permitting the grievances of our past to stunt our life and at the same time not permitting the anxieties of the future eat into our todays. Let us live our life, here and now, to the full, with total confidence that the Lord has a plan that will unfold in God's own time! 

All that we need to do is what Jesus tells us - JUST FOLLOW!!!