A Daily Dose of God

 

 

 

 

 

What Dose the Lord Require of me?

 

 

 

 

 

The prophet Micah advises us, “With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow before God most high....  You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.”

 

Lord our God, You commissioned us to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world, let your light shine on us, Lord Jesus.  Lord, you alone are the holy one.

 

We are not required to love God, but we are invited to love God with all our heart, with all our will and with all our mind.  How can we measure success?  Many years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson noted three qualities he deemed marks of true "success": the ability to discern and appreciate beauty, the ability to see the best in others, and a commitment to leaving the world a better place. 

 

He believed that success came with appreciating God's world, developing loving relationships with God's people, and with working to improve God's world. 

(R. Robert Cueni, Sermons on the Gospel Readings, Series I, Cycle C, CSS Publishing Company)

 

As Catholics we are blessed to be nourished with the Eucharistic on our journey.  We are called to seek the good in each person we meet, to see one another as God sees.

 

“In Chicago in 1953 the city officials and news reporters were waiting at the railroad station for the arrival of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner.  When he stepped off the train…he thanked them and asked to be excused for a moment.  He walked quickly to the side of an elderly woman struggling with her two big suitcases.  Smiling at the woman he picked up her bags and walked with her to her bus.  There he helped her aboard and wished her a safe trip.  Then we went back to the officials and apologized for keeping them waiting.

 

 

 

That man was Albert Schweitzer….  One of the committee members turned to a reporter and said, ‘That’s the first time I ever saw a sermon walking.’”

 

Most of us will not be called upon to perform great actions on great stages, so we must do what we can with small actions on small stages – done with love for God. 

 

That’s HUMILITY!

 

Walk Humbly each day with God and the world will be a better place.

 

May God Be Praised!

Join me and cry out from the depths of your heart to the Lord who hears us. 

 

“Lord, listen to my prayer: turn your ear to my appeal.” [Psalm 143]

God, You are our refuge and our hope, we turn to you during this COVID 19 pandemic and plead for Your intercession.  In Your mercy and Your compassion “… grant eternal rest to the dead, comfort to mourners, healing to the sick ….” [Collect from Mass Time in Pandemic]

Provide strength to the first responders and medical personnel, and wisdom to government leaders.  End this coronavirus scourge.  Bring Your light to all who wander in the darkness of this pandemic and give us hope in Your eternal love today and every day.  Amen.  [Dcn. George Kelly]