The world is my responsibility, and I am encouraged to sanctify the world through my interactions with it.
I have been thinking about my own inadequacy. So many times in my life – during a fervour of love, I call upon God to use me according to His Holy Will.
And then, the moment I experience the slightest discomfort, I complain to God asking Him why He has abandoned me…
When James and John asked Christ to be seated at his left and right sides, “But Jesus answered and said, ‘You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with?’ They said to Him, ‘We are able.’” (Matthew 20:22).
And even those disciples were not ready to do what was needed to fulfil the Holy Will of God!
Most importantly is the premise that when God asked these questions of the disciples – of James and John – He was really asking those questions of me!
Saint Josemaria wrote in “Christ is Passing By” at page 15, “It’s good, Lord, you have kept me up with your hand; for, left to myself, I am capable of the most disgraceful things. Don’t let me go; keep on treating me as a little child. I want to be strong and brave and manly. But you must help me. I am a clumsy creature. Take me by the hand, Lord, and make sure your Mother is also by my side to guard me.”
And it seems that such a prayer is one that I should pray.
For the world is my responsibility and I am encouraged to sanctify the world through my interactions with it.
I am called to live a Christian life with TRUE Christian conviction and the practice this conviction daily. Not just when the times are good and things are easy for me, but also when things are difficult, and times are impossible. And to have the strength to do this, I must speak up when things are in need of being said. And I must hold firm when things appear as difficult as they can be. And I must do all these things trusting in the Lord.
And I must do all these things knowing that God is trusting in me. And I must arrange to stay under the Cloak of my Beloved because He will protect me. And the ONLY way to remain under that Cloak and protection is to continually make myself a child and to remain in a state of Grace.
And knowing all my weaknesses and all the little bits of me that just get it all wrong, it just seems to me to be a simple case of needing to settle myself into the Shadow of my protector. After all, if I could only do that a little bit – through a solid formation in Christ – then I would truly have nothing to fear and no reason to complain…
For with prayer, I stand on Holy Ground where everything is clear. Here. At the Foot of the Cross.
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