Blog Post 11/18/2022 - Homily 11/17/2022 - Country Meadows Communion Service - “Trust the Slow Work of God”

 

Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. offered us this insight, “Above all, trust in the slow work of God.”  Today reflect on patience.  Ask God to be patient with you, Ask God to be patient with each one of us.  We need to be patient with God.  We have sickness, [the COVID Pandemic], war, bitter political partisanship, more and more electronic intrusion into our lives, the climate change and the list of problems goes on and on.

We are nearing the end of our Liturgical year and our Scripture readings remind us of the end times [Heaven, Hell, Death and Judgement].

In today’s Gospel Jesus cries, Jesus wept.  Jesus weeps with us when we weep bearing our hardships and carrying our crosses.  He showed us how to deal with them.

About 500 years before Christ was born a Rabbi was teaching 4 or 5 of his students just outside their village.  As they looked down on their village, they saw foreign troops invading the village.

They heard the screaming, the yelling and saw the fires.  Finally, the rabbi looked up to heaven and screamed, “If only I were God!”  One of his students asked him, “What would you do differently if you were God.”  The rabbi answered, “I would do nothing differently, but I would understand!”

We don’t understand why there is pain and suffering in the world, but Jesus taught us what to do with our pain and suffering.  Offer it up to God, the Father and ask Him to bless it and have good come from it.

Believe that God’s hand is leading us, and the Lord will lead us to our eternal home where every sorrowful tear will be wiped away.  Hope and Trust in the Lord.

Our Hope emanates from God’s Word.  Our Trust comes from living Christ’s message today.  Don’t worry about yesterday, it is gone.  Don’t worry about tomorrow, it isn’t here.

Do the best you can today to be the  best disciple of Jesus.  When tomorrow gets here it will be today.

Do the best you can each day to live your call as a disciple of Jesus.  For a few minutes, in silence, think about being patient with God.

May God Be Praised!