Sunday, July 6, 2014

7/9/2014 – Wednesday of the 14th week of Ordinary Time – Psalm 105:2-7

       “Seek always the face of God.”  That sentence that we hear in our psalm refrain today really struck me out of all of today’s readings.  We live in a world where a lot of people think that there is no God if you don't have tangible proof, that it does not matter if you go to church or not, that it is cool to say that you are spiritual, but not religious, as if being religious is a bad thing.  Many in our society think that no matter how heard you search, you are never going to find God anywhere.  And yet people go on searching for something: searching for happiness, searching for meaning, searching for an ending to their pain, their frustration, and their suffering.   Jesus sent out his 12 disciples. He did not keep them closed up in a monastery to pray all day long.  He instead sent them out to the world to bring his message to others.  We are sent into the world as disciples too.  We never know how our words or our actions can touch someone, but we need to be cognizant of the many ways we can be missionaries to the world.  And we can start where we seek the face of God in our own daily lives.  Even in our worst days and in our moments of frustration and anguish, we can see the face of God if we look closely.  We can see God in an act of kindness, in the beauty of nature, in a moment when notice His presence in a most unexpected place.  May the Lord help us to seek him and to see him, even on those days where it is the most difficult and the most challenging.  

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