Wednesday Morning Connection

Today is Wednesday, December 11, 2013.

Good Morning.

A thought for the day:
God comes to us and bears our pain.

The Church’s 1st reading for today:

Isaiah chapter 40 verses 25-31

To whom can you liken me as an equal?
says the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high
and see who has created these things:
He leads out their army and numbers them,
calling them all by name.
By his great might and the strength of his power
not one of them is missing!
Why, O Jacob, do you say,
and declare, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the LORD,
and my right is disregarded by my God”?

Do you not know
or have you not heard?
The LORD is the eternal God,
creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint nor grow weary,
and his knowledge is beyond scrutiny.
He gives strength to the fainting;
for the weak he makes vigor abound.
Though young men faint and grow weary,
and youths stagger and fall,
They that hope in the LORD will renew their strength,
they will soar as with eagles’ wings;
They will run and not grow weary,
walk and not grow faint.
* * *

When Alexander McClaren was fifteen years old, he was sent to work in order to earn his way to college and to find resources for his family.

His father walked him to work the first day and they went by a ravine in which people said that there were evil spirits lurking there, and anyone who walked through the ravine would be invested with those evil spirits. When Alexander McClaren got to his job, he realized that at the end of the day he would have to go back through that ravine on his way home.

It worried him throughout the day, distracting his thoughts.. He got to the edge of the ravine and he could not do it! Then suddenly he heard a voice, and the voice said, "Alex, it's your Dad. I've come to walk through the ravine with you!"

And that is what God says to each of us as we face an uncertain future, as we face problems in our home, family struggles, uncertainties with our health, as we face sickness and even death: "I've come to walk through the ravine with you!"

Our God does not grow weary as the Scripture this morning says. Our God is always with us even when we might not feel His presence.


God bless,
Father Pat