A Daily Dose of God

 

                 Everyday Greatness

Stephen Covey’s book Everyday Greatness points out “… occasionally the world witnesses a heroic feat or discovers a person with truly rare & remarkable talent.” (Celebrations, 11-16-08)

 

Covey said that most people are aware of another type of greatness that rarely makes the evening … everyday greatness.  Everyday greatness is a way of living ….  For us a life lived for Christ and His Kingdom!

 

Today’s take some time to think about taking risks!  Faith in Jesus Christ cannot be understood or lived without risk; our faith calls us to: care, give, witness, trust, love and hope.

 

We cannot do that w/out taking RISKS!  St. Paul challenges us to stay alert.  Discipleship is hard and difficult work, which often involves tough choices: it demands our best effort & our total self.

 

Let me share a story that Robert Bohl told, God’s Kingdom Comes through Small Acts of Kindness

 

Have you ever felt like giving up?  Have you ever wondered, even in what you try to do for God, whether it is doing any good?  I recommend that you let God be the judge of that!

 

In 1876 a little girl named Annie was ten years of age. She was put into a poor house for children...in Massachusetts.  Her mother had died, and her father had deserted her, and nobody could handle her.

 

She had a bad disposition, a violent temper, a painful eye condition which

made virtually her blind.  But there was another inmate named Maggie who

cared for Annie.  Maggie talked to her, fed her, even though Annie would throw her food on the floor, cursing and rebelling with every ounce of her being.

 

But Maggie was a Christian and out of her convictions she was determined

to love this dirty, unkempt, spiteful, unloving little girl.  It wasn't easy, but slowly it got through to Annie who gradually responded.

 

Annie eventually went to the Perkins Institute. After a series of operations, her sight was partially restored.  She finished school at age twenty.

 

Having been blind so long she told the director of Perkins that she wanted to work with blind and difficult children.  They found a little girl seven years old in Alabama who was blind and deaf from the age of two. So, Annie Sullivan went to Alabama to unlock the door of Helen Keller's dark prison and to set her free.

 

 

One human being, in the name of Christ, helping another human being! That's how God's kingdom comes, through small acts of kindness!

As Thanksgiving, a COIVD 19 plagued one, we should remind ourselves that all of our gifts, all of our talents have been given to us for God’s Kingdom.

 

It is up to us to figure out how to best use them for the Kingdom, knowing full well that someday we will answer to Jesus about our use of those talents!

 

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]