26/07/2022

For two days I have not used this keyboard to record my prayers and declare my Hope in the Lord. I am still a child before my "Dad". Father, Son and Holy Spirit still know me even though I have not declared my faith and thanks for all the graces given to me.

The people of God witnessed and addressed by Jeremiah are suffering an abandonment that seems to them as total. I have never been near to that despair that Judas' understanding of himself brought about his self-eradication but for the last two days I cannot say that God has been my foremost concern.

My being is certainly a wheat field sowed with darnel. Sometimes the wheat flourishes. When the darnel begins to grow however I cannot be sure that the World with all its beauty and concerns, legitimate and otherwise is choking out the awareness of Grace and Love that feeds the wheat. Our Lord and Saviour warns us of this. When my soul is harvested it will be valued by the fruits of my life. I hope and pray that I am truly availing myself of the free gift of life and using it to know love and serve God.

Dear Lord you know what I am, let me return your loving creation of me by sincere devotion to your ways and by casting out the darnel become a harvest as fitting as possible to your Glory. Today we honour the parents of your mother. May Our Lady's perfect love and obedience so inspire our Church that true purpose and Faith return where it is so missing.