In our age of "Fake News", we might be more prone than ever to, as did the Pharisees to "ask for signs"(cf. Mk 8:11). What is the truth? Show it to me. Give me a sign." Like the Pharisees who witnessed the miracles of Jesus, we have the signs before us all the time, but like them, we don't make the connection. Solution: walking in the presence of God, as recommended by St. Marcellin, separates us from our non-stop activity which blinds us to the signs and wonders that come to us in the simple things. Brother Lawrence, whose masterful, The Practice of the Presence of God, reminds us that "our sanctification does not depend upon changing our works, but in doing for God's sake that which we commonly do for our own. In "working for God", not self, we are apt to see his wonder-working hand in the ordinary things right in front of us, and have, then, no need to ask for signs...They are right there!
Bro. Rene
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