So the more I disappear from world view, the more I become ME!! I become who God created me to be in this our day and time. All dealings, kind gestures hidden, thereby leaving room for Christ to grow in me. Hidden from the world, clearly visible to God.
I love how an age-old truth touches down in my deepest heart becoming really real for the first time. Lightbulb moment!
H, one of our group ladies, lives her life exactly like that, selfless kindness and caring in vivid display. (To God, not the world), She gives and gives with an easygoing grace and joy. Never seeking limelight, she remains always in the background.
Recently, all of us donating to folk in need of travel money, H gave her offering to another to deliver, caring only about helping folk in their hour of need. Thanks not wanted nor needed!
On the odd occasion that she does personally deliver, her presence brings light and happiness.
‘Yesterday H brought me a duvet. Her smile….’, lady told me this morning in Church. Smiling herself, she could find no words. I knew exactly what she meant.
Let us be Jesus beautiful smile to another this day.
‘He must increase, I must decrease’. (John3:30)
‘O God, Trinity, Whom I adore, help me to forget myself entirely and to establish myself in You. Unmovable and peaceful, help me to always remember Your eternal activity in me.
May nothing be able to trouble me, to disturb my peace or make me leave You, o my unchanging God. May each minute that I have life, bring me more deeply into this mystery of Your life in me.
Grant me peace. Make my soul Your Heaven, Your beloved dwelling place, the place where You come and find rest.
May I never abandon You there. May I be there whole and entire, completely vigilant in my faith that You are there.
Entirely adoring You, given over entirely to Your creative action in teaching, communicating and loving inside of me. Amen. (St. Elizabeth of the Trinity)
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