WORD 2day: Monday, 10th week in Ordinary time
June 7, 2021: 2 Cor 1: 1-7; Mt 5: 1-12
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 peace 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 that seems so heavenly.
Memories and Promises, play a great part in our faith experience, in our identity as people of God. But there is also a tendency that has to be avoided for a holistic spirituality ...the tendency to a selective memory of negative things and selective amnesia of so many positive experiences; and the tendency to make faith moments a series of foretelling and soothsaying. Instead memories should be of the gracious moments of the past and promises should be a childlike surrender to the will of God.
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.
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