Monday, May 17, 2010

Grace presses onward

The Holy Spirit never stops working. Day after day, night after night, grace presses onward. Bringing everything into the light of God. The more people hide the more grace is poured out by God. God is love.
Love uproots hidden things. Not to harm but to heal. The Mystical Body of Christ is wounded and the Holy Spirit is surfacing these wounds so that our eyes open up, we turn to God, and He heals us. If we let Him.We have free will and He respects that but He has sounded the alarm worldwide. This is our wake up call. We look around the earth and see these wounds festering everywhere. In the eyes of our teenagers crying out for love and purpose, in our elderly who are made to feel useless and unwanted in our society when they should be cherished, in our overflowing prisons. The more we run from God the more obvious this woundedness is becoming. Will we completely destroy the earth and ourselves before we wake up and realize the answer is staring us right in the face? All creation is crying out. No one can blame God for what we ourselves have wrought. He is simply allowing us bigger and bigger glimpses of the damage we have done through our hardness of heart.

The truth is...people were made for love. God would loves us back to wholeness if we allow Him to. Jesus took upon Himself our sins and by "His stripes we were healed". Can we look Jesus in the eye and say that this wasn't enough? He poured Himself out for us.

 "It is finished."            John 19:30

Yes, Lord, it is enough.

8 comments:

  1. Oh I like this post Mary, and I agree with everything you are saying.....:-) Hugs

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  2. A very lovely reflection and something we all need to be reminded of from time to time.

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  3. Beautifully said, Mary. We are our brother's keeper.

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  4. You have that right, the Holy Spirit never ceases, but increases if we let Him. Thanks Mary. Blessings.

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  5. Thank You Mary, this was beautiful. I posted it on my blog.
    " Come Holy Spirit and fill our hearts with your love "

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  6. Love does uproot hidden things in order for God to heal! This is very true. And yes, the eyes of our youth cry out love.

    The Lord has been calling me lately to be more committed to fasting along with my rosary. Today I will add the intentions of your beautiful post, especially for the youth and elderly to my fast and prayer.

    Thank you so much,

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