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The heart of the home in years past was the hearth.
It was at the hearth that the family gathered for the warmth and light of the flame and the food that was prepared there.
The fire was treated with respect since the same flame which provided energy for the home could just as easily destroy it.
The Israelites in their forty years in the desert were journeying from captivity to freedom, but the struggle of their desert years made them vulnerable to attack from every temptation as today’s first reading continues
I’m not sure if children today are told the great story of the Emperor’s New Clothes, but if not let’s make sure that the parable is taught at all schools of higher learning.
A few years ago I discovered the wonderful way that God uses my imagination in my prayer.
Such openness to imagination when seeking God does not take us away from reality into fantasy but instead brings me into what is most real and inescapably personal and intimate.
A couple of thousand years ago, a young Jewish woman was going about her normal morning routines, perhaps with a mixture of house and garden work, chatting with parents and neighbours, aware of the local drought, the sickness of a neighbour and annoyed by the neighbourhood’s lack of sleep caused by the Romans’ noisy party the night before, when God broke into her routine and entered her life in a new and powerful way.
Mary, you lovingly accepted the poverty of the stable, although you were to give birth to our God and redeemer. Grant me the grace to endure poverty when l long for richer things.
From a small Rosary book put out by Divine Mercy publications.
Thank you God and Fr John.
The “image” of
The Babe in the hand”
So TRUSTING” is the little one.
may we all open our hands
To receive that same safe trust
Only OUR GOD can give,
and do our best to pass on,
That same trust,to all
we Encounter in our life.
AMEN,thankyou Fr John