Thankfully through the Internet we can really get access to a lot of things that we might not have been able to before the net came about. I have subscribed to receive e-letters from the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and I will share one of the letters as it was wonderful and really makes you think about life.
Here is their link ( Franciscan Friairs of the Renewal) and I encourage you to sign up and enjoy the words of comfort and wisdom that they send out!
Letters of hope and consolation # 3
Imagine if you had the opportunity to watch a slide show of your life from your birth up
until the present moment. As all the moments of your life pass before you what do you think
you would learn? Have you arrived at the place you are right now in your life because of
coincidence, your own abilities, or gifts? The truth is God has been with you your entire life.
He has always been with you, helping you to walk when you believed you couldn’t, opening
your eyes when you felt unable to see and opening your heart to believe when you felt that life
was empty.
The rest of the slide show, beginning now until the last day of your life, is not available
yet. However, the question remains, how will you live the rest of your life? If God has been
with you in the past, will you allow him to be with you in the present and in the future? Or will
you live as if you are in control and spend the rest of your days trying to “be” God, instead of
living in the freedom that belongs to you as one of his children?
Whether it is the past, present or future God is in control. There is only one God and
there is no need for us to try and be Him. He has done a good enough job on his own and does
not heed our help!
God bless you,
Fr. Jeremiah Myriam Shryock CFR
St. Felix Friary, Yonkers, NY
Posted by C.F.R. Vocations eLetter at 7:27 PM
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