The famliar Gospel Hymn, Blessed Assurance, reminds us that even in the daily routine, the mid-winter "blahs", the distractions and busyness of our lives, our self-doubt and self-disatisfaction, "Jesus is mine." "I in my Savior am happy and blest,/ Watching and waiting, looking above,/ Filled with His goodness, lost in His love." Remember, that Jesus is "one of us", he knows what is in human nature, and assures us over and over again, that his power is ours for the claiming: the power to come back to him when our busyness draws us away from him. Calmly he awaits us, and calmly he enables us to pick up where we left off with him. We will not always be on Mount Tabor in a transfiguration moment, but fidelity to him in the flat spaces, the ordinary moments, keeps our relationship alive and strong. The Psalmist reminds us how faithful God is, even to the smallest details of our lives:
"From the dust he lifts up the lowly,
from his misery he raises he poor
to set him in the company of princes,
yes, with the princes of his people.
To the childless wife he gives a home
and gladdens her heart with children. "(Ps 113: 7-9)
This Sabbath day, with its call to communal worship at Mass, and lull in the weeks' usual hecticity, let us take the time to basque in the blessed assurance of God's unending and unconditional love, and renews ourselves for the week ahead.
Bro. Rene
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