11/10/2023

God is Our Father and is thus ready to forgive our sins. Jesus tells us that to pray we have to acknowledge God as Our Father. 

Everything that makes up this universe, in which I am smaller than RNA in any virus, is  produced by God. In his Triune Being he is Evergreater and the word "Love" is the nearest anyone can get to understanding the being which knows each one of us as an individual;  the same way we all know our selves.

Jonah has become petulant with his father. He is fed up with the way the Lord is using him. Strange journey to huge city, the comfort of shade here and gone in the night, scorching hot wind. "I might as well be dead" is his reaction to God's Providence. 

Each one of us is known to Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the same way as Jonah was. The phrase "Quiet desperation" has been used to describe the way most of us live out our lives. Jesus' Resurrection transforms that stoical acceptance of life into Hopeful Joy.

We all have to become prophets and keep God foremost in our lives. We have to live in awe of the Greatness of God and pray. Pray even as did Jonah in the dust and Jesus on the cross.

"Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven"

Dear Lord, let me become free of self-satisfaction and let my soul sing with the joy of knowing you. I know  that words do nothing for you but for me they are the only way of expressing the longing and regrets that my sinful life has been. May Mary and all the saints continue implore for you to show Mercy to all the souls who are, even as I write, dying as a result of mankind's blindness and deafness to the message of the Resurrection.