Monday, September 19, 2011

Belong to God

I believe that God presents little tasks for each Christian to complete, little orders for each Christian to fulfill. The word of the Lord lives, the word of the Lord speaks to each one us every day of our lives. The word of the Lord lives within us every day of our lives. We become too busy, too preoccupied, too sophisticated to hear it, to feel it. We can all be prophets for God like Jeremiah when we allow ourselves to love the Lord, to serve the Lord, to sacrifice ourselves, our pride, our ambition for the Lord. As Christians silence, reverence, patience can lead to a deeper understanding, deeper connection with God.

The Lord inspires each Christian to have a life of goodness, kindness, holiness. God inspires each Christian to create and nurture lives filled with humility, charity, obedience, compassion, and mercy. The Lord presents each Christian with beauty, goodness, truth as guides to salvation. Christians are encouraged to aspire to be godlike in tenderness, gentleness, mercy, compassion, and love. The spiritual life of each Christian becomes a process of finding and sharing the Kingdom of God within us. Spirituality leads us to help build God’s community. Our spiritual life inspires us to thoughts of greatness, hope.

As a Catholic I believe that a very personal charge from God exists. God wants us to be open to love, to be open to forgiveness. Our responsibilities as Christians start with universal and unconditional love, start with universal and unconditional forgiveness. Our daily existence becomes a chance for us to share love, to share forgiveness each and every day. For goodness, holiness, kindness to survive no grudges, no ill feelings can be allowed to flourish within our hearts.

We belong to God, we belong to a community of believers and followers of Jesus Christ. God dwells in the hearts, in the minds, in the souls of each Christian.

Our lives as Christians present the opportunity for evangelization, the opportunity for inspiring others to return to the faith. We can simply inspire others to love God, to love their neighbors by our choices, by how we present our faith, our love, our commitment to God.

The most valuable free will offering that God wants remains our unconditional love for him, for our neighbors, for ourselves.

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