The Lord has blessed me in my 55 years of life. I have seen many sunny
and brighter sides in life which also had some ups and downs. But when I now
look back all those negative moments were stepping-stones for me. But I cannot
regret or complain for the graces and blessings I have had in my life. I
realised that the more you give yourself to the Lord, the more he gives you
back in the form of blessings and good things in life like good Friars, friends
and family members. I have never regretted for the vocation that I have
received to be a Capuchin Franciscan and I would neither complain about the
choice that I have made. Why live in regrets when you are filled with graces
and good things are all around you. God makes himself present through so many
good people in your life. A good fraternity is where you experience the Love of
God every moment when a friar smiles and enquires about your health and life.
Once you are convinced of Gods concern for you then you build up relationships
with him and the brothers who live you. What we need is to have an honest
encounter and dialogue with those whom we live and work. Are we open to an
honest encounter with this love for us in the Sacrament of Reconciliation where
our sins are wiped away by the blood of Jesus and a deeper awareness of divine
love floods our souls? Are we open to this divine love by receiving His words
to us in faith and letting these words shape our actions so that we respond
appropriately to His love? Do we let teachings of the Church shape our moral response
to God’s love in this age of moral relativism?.
The God who loves us so much is with us and He never ceases to act so as
to give us life. Jesus Himself who died for us and rose from the dead has won
for us the grace also to respond to this divine love. In this Eucharistic
sacrifice, Jesus perpetuates His loving action to us in the words of
consecration, “This is my body… This is my blood given up for you so that sins
may be forgiven.” Divine love in action never ceases to draw us to Himself no
matter the pains of the present or the sins of the past. It is not His will
that we live in regret in this life or in the life to come, “I came that they
may have life and have it abundantly,… It is not the will of my heavenly father
that one of these be lost(Jn 10:10; Mt 18:14) With the grace and love of this
sacrament, let us strive to respond to divine love in action that is in
accordance with His will and we will have the truth that sets us free from all
regrets – the truth that there is no thing or person that we cannot live with
but we just cannot live without God
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