In light of today’s events in Colorado http://www.nbcnews.com/, I am sharing a song posted by a Facebook friend. Sting’s “Fragile” really does sum up how I have felt all day. But I know that somewhere in the midst of all of this uncertainty and utter madness lies the string that holds us all together. Let us pray to put an end to this culture of violence. Let us pray for all those lives lost or shattered by one persons madness. Let us pray for PEACE.
Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
My friend Helen has suffered a second stroke in as many months. I was blessed enough to see her a couple of weeks ago being her perky self. Helen is in her mid-seventies and has been enveloped by the Gospel most of her adult life. She is the epitome of Christian dedication and it is…
“How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those that find it are few” Matthew 7:14I don’t know about you, but this passage does not make me feel warm and fuzzy. It actually makes me think, “Yikes! I guess I’m out of luck!” But I wonder what Jesus really meant….
When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, Lord, supported me. When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy. Psalm 94: 18-19I watched a video yesterday where a woman said her Pastor used a term called “anchoring” how in those moments of great stress we need to anchor ourselves in…
Yesterday was Easter which in this house is everything. My world exists because of the promise of Easter.As a girl growing up in a predominantly Catholic community, I remember how involved I was with all of our traditions and rituals at my church and how they helped form my identity. While the Easter bunny is a fun…
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Annette, yes we are so very fragile. When I was on retreat one of the priests prayed for the people in Colorado and also the people in Scarborough, Ontario who had been involved in violent acts. When I heard about these two incidents, I was almost ill because people are so desperate and they don’t know the love of Jesus in their lives. I have been troubled by this but we need to keep the hope that is in our faith in Christ and we need to remember Matthew 25 and be part of the solution. I will be using this song and Matthew 25 for reflection at Bible Study this evening as we are all community and we need to be aware and feel for others whether we know them personally or not.
Thank you for this post and thank you for your prayers while I was on retreat. It was certainly not “enjoyable” but I spent a great deal of time wrestling with God and I was blessed.
God bless you.
I think you hit the nail on the head “they don’t know the love of Jesus in thier lives” and the reality is that we can only try to be that to whomever we meet and we can only pray for a more loving and gentler world. God likes to wrestle, so much of his book is about just that. I hope the song was useful in what I can only imagine was a difficult Bible Study. My heart and prayers go out to everyone in the ongoing aftermath.