Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

“How tightly should we hold on to our wills,” you ask Lord? How often have we mouthed the words or expressed the desire to surrender our wills to Yours, to accept whatever happens to us each day as Your will for our lives and that which is best for our salvation? How often Lord have we prayed for the grace to let go and let You direct our every thought, word and deed? - a lifetime! But most of us have failed in surrendering even a smidgen of our wills. We hold on foolishly and sinfully to them. We become more stressed, more prone to anger. And the more we realize that failure, the more entrenched in despair and discouragement we become. We do what we claim we do not want to do and fail to do what we know we should. Lord, unleash the grasp the evil one has on our hearts, minds, souls and wills. Let us Lord accept ourselves as we are. Help us Lord to resign ourselves to the things we cannot change. Release us Lord from the anxiety we harbor for the spiritual well-being of those o...

Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time. St. Bernadine of Siena   “Let Mary never be far from your lips and from your heart. Following her, you will never lose your way. Praying to her, you will never sink into despair. Contemplating her, you will never go wrong.”   (Source: Father Eva Chibuzo Asadu)   St. John Henry Newman "My Lord, I offer you myself in turn as a sacrifice of thanksgiving. You have died for me, and I in turn make myself over to you. I am not my own. You have bought me; I will by my own act and deed complete the purchase. My wish is to be separated from everything of this world; to cleanse myself simply from sin; to put away from me even what is innocent, if used for its own sake, and not for yours. I put away reputation and honor, and influence, and power, for my praise and strength shall be in you. Enable me to ...

"St. Theresa of Avila once heard someone say: 'If only I had lived at the time of Jesus… If only I had seen Jesus…If only I had talked with Jesus'…To this, Theresa replied: 'But do we not have in the Eucharist the living, true and real Jesus present before us?   Why look for Him?' ”  (Author Unknown, from Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire! Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct )  

 

When we are before the Blessed Sacrament, let us open our hearts; our good God will open His.  We shall go to Him; He will come to us; the one to ask, the other to receive.  It will be like a breath from one to the other.     St. John Marie Vianney