A Daily Dose of God - The Importance of Words

 

Claude Brown, (who wrote Manchild in the Promised Land), … said that people under forty … have never lived in America where movie language was not liberally laced with obscenities.  He said that profanity is rapidly replacing English as the language of the American people.  Then he added, "Most people don't know it, but profanity is the language of violence."

People say, words can't hurt you. They can hurt you. Words can dehumanize….  Often the language that is used in our society … is the language that dehumanize.  There are words that hurt people.

There are words that profane what is sacred and holy about human life.

You use them and they will affect your life, and the life of those around you.

But there are words that heal, build, create, unite, reconcile you to someone ….  Who will be the people in this society who speak these words?  (The Power of Words, Mark Trotter, Collected Sermons)  “… commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife ….” (Lincoln 10/03/1863)

 

To be successful in life you need:

1.    a vision/words

2.    to work hard and smart

3.    preserve

 

To be a successful Christian you need:

1.     a vision/words – child of God

2.     to work hard and smart – serve God always

3.     preserve – be a Christian one day at a time

 

St. Jane de Chantal taught us “In prayer one must hold fast and never let go ….”    Pope Francis at the World Youth Day in 2013 urged “Do not be afraid to go and to bring Christ into every area of life ….”  Our time of preparation can start today by making our words and our actions are gift to God.

 

May God Be Praised!

 

 

 

 

COVID 19 Pandemic Prayer

 

Hear my cry!  “Lord, listen to my prayer: turn your ear to my appeal.”  You are my refuge and my hope, I 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 ….”

[Psalm 143 and Collect from Mass Time in Pandemic]

 

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