1) Are you serving directly in this fight to save the humanity?
You are, of course, engaged fully.
Just keep in your
heart, “God, be in me, and be with us”
2) Are you locked
down at home?
There is a long
time to pass
Alone, away,
constrained, concerned…
Pass over
gracefully.
See well
The News, the updates, instructions, orders ...
The sick, the
abandoned, the dying, the people in healthcare, the fleeing migrants,
Read their pain, fear, hunger, health, fatigue,
Our own people - spouse,
parents, children, friends...
There are lots of
things to read attentively in them,
Which we never gave
attention;
their love, likes,
desires, complaints, silence…
See well the world,
society, the poor, caretakers, the police, the government...
Read attentively,
the many cares that we took for granted.
See well the
nature, the plants, the animals, the air, the water,
Read attentively the
mysteries we desacralized
Feel them
Feel what is seen
and read,
Imagine the path
they walk, hold their pain, rejection, neglect, struggle, fatigue, fear …
Express
Express them in
gestures, sighs, or even in words,
Your heart might whisper
just a word, ‘O God.’
It is your sincere
cry that involves your prayer for them, repentance for what is neglected, gratitude
for what is seen as received.
Hear
Hear the voice of
God, speaking to you and the whole of what you have seen, read felt and voiced.
Feel the consolation,
comfort, and the presence of God for you and for the world,
in hospitals, in
streets, with the sick and the dying, with the caretakers and the scientists,
with the police and the governments.
Firmly believe the presence of God, not just for your protection and care, but all the more the presence with the sick and the dying.
You could see the presence of God as a guest and a host within the locked down house.
Since it is simple, it might be hard to practice.
Since it is simple, it might be hard to practice.
Make an attempt trusting in grace
It might also fill you with compassion and courage.
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Ref. Traditional pattern
of Lectio Divina – Read, Meditate, Speak, Contemplate –
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