3 Points on Mission

Jesus, sometimes I want to give up, but you always pull me back in and strengthen me so that I can go on, thank you. As a Christian and a Catholic you call me to imitate you and that is a high bar. One that I can only achieve with your help. Please send your grace so that I may glorify you by loving others. Your sacrifice was so great I love you and wish to honor it deeply. Help me to see God in my daily comings and goings. Help me to hear the Word spoken to me each day. You do feed me and I am grateful help me stay on the right path so that I may never perish. In Jesus Christ's name I pray, amen.

1 Kings 19:4-8

Elijah went a day's journey into the desert, until he came to a broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death saying: "This is enough, O LORD! Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers." He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree, but then an angel touched him and ordered him to get up and eat. Elijah looked and there at his head was a hearth cake and a jug of water. After he ate and drank, he lay down again, but the angel of the LORD came back a second time, touched him, and ordered, "Get up and eat, else the journey will be too long for you!" He got up, ate, and drank; then strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb.

Often I have been tempted to give up. Sometimes as a Christian I feel I just can't go on because the world is so caught up in hate and division. People use each other as if they were mere things to throw away after they are used up, but Jesus' love calls and refreshes me. It spiritually, emotionally, intellectually and physically feeds me so that I can go out and love in battle each week.

Ephesians 4:30—5:2

Brothers and sisters: Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were sealed for the day of redemption. All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice. And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.

Even among fellow Christians the devil is always working to divide us, because he knows that we are easier to enslave when we are on our own. I take it as a mission from God to not see what differentiates me from my other Christian brother and sisters, but yet see what I have in common, and in that common ground spread Christ's love to those who need it so dearly.

John 6:41-51

The Jews murmured about Jesus because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven, " and they said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, 'I have come down from heaven'?" Jesus answered and said to them, "Stop murmuring among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day. It is written in the prophets: They shall all be taught by God. Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."

Sometimes when sharing my faith people have a hard time hearing it because its coming from me and they think they "know" me. I have to smile and be vigilant. I have to trust in God and the grace the bestows on me. I return to Jesus daily and he feeds me. I go to Mass on Sunday where the host and wine are turned into the true body and blood so that Christ can feed me of his body and blood. Each time I return to God for council I find my way to Jesus and his example. Jesus gives so much to me, how can I not give all to him? How can I not accept the mission to share his life and his love so that those lost in this world might be found? Love brings so much happiness especially when I share it. Let the love begin again.

And that's all I got to say about that.