Tell Us Plainly

At the Feast of the Dedication, the Jews asked Jesus to tell them plainly if he were the Messiah.  Jesus quickly retorted, "I have told you and you do not believe." (Jn 10:25).  His cures, his changing water into wine, these were not enough?  Yet we know how the skeptic dwells in us all.  Even the miracle of Fatima witnessed by 70,000 people on October 13, 1917, has been lost to faded memory, doubt or disbelief.  We even doubt our own goodness or that all we have received to make us who we are today is a gift from God.   We need humility and faith to see the truth, to accept it and be grateful for it.  May we pray today for the grace to see plainly God's  hand at work in our lives, for it is there,  and give him credit and thanks for it.
Bro.Rene