Note--This Saturday morning Mass came about from a request from a few of our high school students who went to Ghana. I was inspired that, shortly after coming home, they wanted to gather around the Eucharist to celebrate a successful trip.
I was hoping you would bring your drums to Mass for our
music, but apparently you missed the memo.
Throughout
our trip, and especially now that we are home, I have been thinking about all
the answered prayers we experienced.
We were given $76,000. We
had smooth travels. We were all
relatively healthy—certainly no one got a life-threatening illness. We made friends and in short had
nothing less than a ten day God moment.
We must remember that God wants to answer all of our
prayers. Sometimes we approach
prayer like we need to persuade God or reason with Him. We don’t. Neither do we need to be perfect for God’s fidelity with our
requests. St. John wrote in his
first letter, “Beloved: We
have this confidence in him that if we ask anything according
to his will, he hears us. And
if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, we
know that what we have asked him for is ours.” Our Psalm adds, “The
Lord takes delight in his people.”
The Lord delights in us and wants to give us every good gift.
We received many good gifts from God in Ghana—one answered
prayer after another. Remember
this. And John the Baptist gives
us the proper response to such gifts, “Christ
must increase, I must decrease.”
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