Mercies can be as loud as ice "plunking" in the ice bucket!
While getting ready for the day i noticed how routine the morning ritual can be...walking to the coffee maker, preparing the filter, measuring the grounds....making the toast etc. Its the uncommon that breaks the monotony of a habitual routine: an unfamiliar bird chirp, the muffled "plunk" of ice dropping into the ice bucket in the freezer or the change in room temperature when autumn creeps upon the early mornings. i love those moment breakers!!!!!!! First off, these moment breakers in the morning help me to wake up! Secondly, it helps me to take notice of the here and now..the present moment!
To be alive is a wonderful thing! How to maintain it can be the more difficult of the tasks. Ever since i said "I do" my life has changed and i keep finding my self saying "I do" in different versions: The way i get ready in the morning-Preparing meals, teaching, running errands, taking the kids to their activities, work-out of home jobs, LAUNDRY etc.. ...As life is being maintained and lived where's the muffled "plunk" of ice dropping in the bucket to break the routine?
It's the witness of Christ by others around me that help me to stop and remind me Who i should thank for allowing me to live out my " I do's" and who created them. For example: My husband leaving to go to work, despite how tired he felt, to provide for the family; to the woman with 10 children who took the only few minutes of spare time in her day to call a friend in the hospital ministering through her kind words.
Jesus Mercy is so ongoing! In Matthew 17:22-27 Jesus predicts His death and then provides a way for Peter to pay the temple tax by having him reach into a fish and grabbing the shekel. He tells of the rejection and then lets life show in example form of the denial..in this case Him & Peter being foreigners in the temple being made to pay the tax, and then giving the example of His generosity through His mercy providing for the tax (the) means to pay the temple tax. Jesus in His Mercy gives us these examples through scripture and by other people witnessed living their" I-do's" in a ordinary way, everyday.
The rejection: I don't always appreciate every morning my husband waking up despite exhaustion to go to work for our family. The shekel in the fishes mouth is the smile and hug he gives me when he says, "have a good day" and offers a prayer for me...the one that stays at home.....
The rejection: the woman with 10 kids has not been offered help or a break. The coin: she takes her only few minutes of spare time to herself to call and check in on a person in the hospital, ministering with kind words.
These silent Mercies that provide for a tangible witness to Christ in the midths of life- living are just as loud as the ice falling into the ice bucket early in the morning, breaking the silence of the morning routine!
In today Lord, i hope that my actions will give meaning to your life lived in the obedience of what needed to be done (temple tax), my daily duties done in love and gratefulness, and as Peter found the shekel to pay, may the gift of yourself-the Eucharist, that lives in me, be found in a way i can reject my selfishness by doing something good for others, so your Mercy may be made known.
Quote From St. Faustina-the desciple of mercy: "Be adored, O Most Holy Trinity, now and for all time. Be adored in all Your works and all your creatures....." Notebook1(1st part of quote in entry 5) Today, may you be blessed with wonderful distractions of God's Mercy around you, appearing as loud as the ice "plunking" into the ice box in the freezer!
To be alive is a wonderful thing! How to maintain it can be the more difficult of the tasks. Ever since i said "I do" my life has changed and i keep finding my self saying "I do" in different versions: The way i get ready in the morning-Preparing meals, teaching, running errands, taking the kids to their activities, work-out of home jobs, LAUNDRY etc.. ...As life is being maintained and lived where's the muffled "plunk" of ice dropping in the bucket to break the routine?
It's the witness of Christ by others around me that help me to stop and remind me Who i should thank for allowing me to live out my " I do's" and who created them. For example: My husband leaving to go to work, despite how tired he felt, to provide for the family; to the woman with 10 children who took the only few minutes of spare time in her day to call a friend in the hospital ministering through her kind words.
Jesus Mercy is so ongoing! In Matthew 17:22-27 Jesus predicts His death and then provides a way for Peter to pay the temple tax by having him reach into a fish and grabbing the shekel. He tells of the rejection and then lets life show in example form of the denial..in this case Him & Peter being foreigners in the temple being made to pay the tax, and then giving the example of His generosity through His mercy providing for the tax (the) means to pay the temple tax. Jesus in His Mercy gives us these examples through scripture and by other people witnessed living their" I-do's" in a ordinary way, everyday.
The rejection: I don't always appreciate every morning my husband waking up despite exhaustion to go to work for our family. The shekel in the fishes mouth is the smile and hug he gives me when he says, "have a good day" and offers a prayer for me...the one that stays at home.....
The rejection: the woman with 10 kids has not been offered help or a break. The coin: she takes her only few minutes of spare time to herself to call and check in on a person in the hospital, ministering with kind words.
These silent Mercies that provide for a tangible witness to Christ in the midths of life- living are just as loud as the ice falling into the ice bucket early in the morning, breaking the silence of the morning routine!
In today Lord, i hope that my actions will give meaning to your life lived in the obedience of what needed to be done (temple tax), my daily duties done in love and gratefulness, and as Peter found the shekel to pay, may the gift of yourself-the Eucharist, that lives in me, be found in a way i can reject my selfishness by doing something good for others, so your Mercy may be made known.
Quote From St. Faustina-the desciple of mercy: "Be adored, O Most Holy Trinity, now and for all time. Be adored in all Your works and all your creatures....." Notebook1(1st part of quote in entry 5) Today, may you be blessed with wonderful distractions of God's Mercy around you, appearing as loud as the ice "plunking" into the ice box in the freezer!
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