Starting on my other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS on Nov
1...a 3 day series on HOW TO LESSEN ANXIETY.
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A different sermon is begun on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday.
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Hebrews
10:31 “fall into the hands of the living
God. ” (check new translation)
(A
CONTINUATION FROM LAST TUESDAY)
I called
someone, to give some solace in her time of sickness. She ended up uplifting me. She was
quite sick and what lay ahead would not be easy and yet she said to me, “I have
learned more of God in my sickness than I ever did in my wellness. ”
His name
was Cardinal Mercier and shells had destroyed his cathedral and all his
precious library had gone up in smoke. He stood amidst the ruins and said to someone
standing by his side, “Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . will
give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life. ”
Accept some of the
rules of life even if you do not understand. Stand before the throne of grace and simply
say, “Thy will be done” and mean it and “the peace that passeth understanding”
comes. I do not completely understand how or why,
but it comes.
In
1982 when my left arm hung limp and useless from my shoulder, paralyzed and
futile, I was not a happy camper. Indeed I could have worn myself weary by
berating my foolishness in taking up hang gliding. Instead I prayed, “Lord, make my arm well, or
let me learn a lesson from this accident. But most of all, thy will be done. ” He chose
to heal my arm. But even more he did wonderful things for my
psyche.
“I walked
a mile with Pleasure,
She
chattered all the way,
But left
me none the wiser
For all
she had to say.
I walked
a mile with Sorrow,
And ne’re
a word said she;
But, oh,
the things I learned from her
When
Sorrow walked with me!”
We all
know pain. Piercing, dull, steady. We all know pain.
We all face losses,
Death, broken relationships, shattered health, . . . the
list is endless. We grieve for what
has happened and some grieve in advance.
And
trying to make sense of it is one of the most difficult task any of us
undertake.
There are solutions,
such as our ability to accept permanent change. Not what we want, but what is. Not that
life will be worse, it may even be better. . . but
that it will be different. On the whole, we human beings don’t like
change, so this is easier said than done.
There are solutions, such as whether
we say “Woe is me,” or “What can I do to make this terrible time better?”
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