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| open hands by Joseph Gurney |
“Though I thought I had toiled in vain, and
for nothing, uselessly, spent my strength, yet my reward is with the Lord, my
recompense is with my God. For now the Lord has spoken who formed me as his
servant from the womb… and I am made glorious in the sight of the Lord, and my
God is now my strength.”
~Book
of the Prophet Isaiah 49: 4-5,
today’s first reading
on the Solemnity of John
the Baptist
Have you ever poured yourself into a project
(or a direction in life) that keeps getting harder and harder, but instead of
lifting up your head to see if God is showing you a different way, a change in
direction, you instead decide that the answer must be to simply try harder!?
Then one day, maybe years later, the bell
goes off and it becomes as obvious and tangible as a hot cup of coffee… if I
open my hands all the way, the Lord will take my hand and show me the way, a
new way—His way.
Seems like a Camino lesson I have to keep
re-learning.
Thank God He never gives up on me.
Not only that, but in God's eternal and abundant mercy, even that which I then come to consider useless and for nothing becomes glorious when I offer it back to God.
“It is you,
O Lord, who are my hope,
my trust, O
Lord, since my youth.
On you I
have leaned from my birth,
From my
mother’s womb you have been my help.
My hope has
always been in you.”
~Psalm
71: 5-6,
from today’s Morning Prayer
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