The Power of Meeting Jesus

Note:  Due to technical issues, including a virus threat, I have not had access to the internet for several days...agony, believe me.  Now am on retreat at St. Anselm's Abbey, and able to take time to send a daily slice as part of my retreat.. God bless you all.

Never underestimate the power of meeting Jesus face to face...Look at what happened to Nathaniel.  (AKA Bartholomew) He is a good model for us...noted for his lack of duplicity, or in Marist terms for his straightforward simplicity.."what you see is what you get."  When approached by his enthusiastic friend, Philip, who told him he had met the ONE Moses and the prophets has written about, he was directly skeptical on hearing that he came from Nazareth, only a few miles from his own  Cana.  Nazareth, evidently was poor and lacked anything that would give it credibility.  "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" (Jn 1:47). Philip lacked words to describe Jesus, so  he invited Nathaniel to come and see for himself. Seeing Jesus, hearing him describe him to a "T" and predicting a happy future for him, turned the skeptic into a believer, one strong enough to preach the Gospel after the Resurrection and suffer martyrdom.  That "something" about Jesus, which has a power greater than any we have to change hearts, can turn our hearts too.  May we in all simplicity, like Nathaniel, let that power into our hearts to make us into the person God intends us to be.
Bro .Rene