18/01/2024

I have now been entrusted with my own life for 83 years. My earliest memories are of searchlights and bombs and of being comforted by my mother inside what I now know to have been an indoor air-raid shelter.

I have been known to God from the first moment of my conception even though I knew nothing at that moment but now I can repeat the words of David composed centuries before my birth and ponder them. "In God I trust; I shall not fear; what can mortal man do against me?"

David put himself into the hands of Saul who had been seething in jealous anger as result of the victory inaugurated by David's defeat of Goliath. David could take this risk because he knew that God was on his side.

I am not prominent in the world as were David and Saul but am one of the billions known only to Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (None of us are anonymous to God).There are no enemies seeking my death but still I have to fear "the mortal man" that I am for it is only in this body that I can keep my soul free from sin and thus know, as did David "that I may walk in the presence of God and enjoy the light of the living."

Dear Lord, you know that I have not always loved and respected my parents as I should have done. My hope is that even if  not cleansed of their sins they are awaiting your Mercy in Purgatory and that we all, on Earth and in Purgatory can receive from the grace that is the Bliss of Mary and all the Saints. Amen.