Psalm 42 presents the captivating image of the deer yearning for running streams and compares that longing for the soul's thirsting for God. Simple, direct, true. We might not always acknowledge that God is the object of our desires, especially when we are dealing with an illness whose cure occupies the center of the stage. Yet, like the paralytic in today's Gospel, the desire for a cure can also lead to a spiritual cure, the realization that without God as part of the equation of our life, even a cure will not satisfy our deepest longings. Only God's full occupation of our hearts will satiate us. That usually comes when we cross over "the river", but it is also possible to move closer to that fulfillment even in this life. It is usually a long, gradual journey, though some like St. Therese or St. Stanislas Kostka were blessed with it in their early twenties. We need to let the torrents of God's love flow freely over us and sweep us towards him.
Bro. Rene
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