Poor human
nature. We shall fall more than once. But guess what? It is through these falls, these
miseries, and the recognition of our feebleness, by which his heart is attracted.
He raises great edifice on mere nothingness and utter insufficiency.
If our falling
and failing brings about a recognition of our weakness, and we cultivate
confidence in His mercy, everything becomes gain for us. Falling by the gravity
of self, Satan and sin increases our merits when we are little, and when we keep up
the struggle.
Our freedom
entails us digging more into our failings and hustling more to be the
best version of ourselves. How can we keep aloof from sacramental confession for
so long? How can we say we have got nothing to confess? Steve Jobs once
counselled folly and hunger as a prerequisite to success.
Let us recognise
truth (Jn 8: 32). Let us be poor in Spirit (Lk 6: 20). Humility is truth and it
consists in the recognition of our nothingness, with an absolute dependence on
His righteousness. His heart is the throne of mercy and the most wretched are
the most welcome.
Our progress lies
not in the satisfaction of our virtue, but in the recognition of our vice. He
loves our littleness, not our goodness; our absolute nothingness, not our
utmost righteousness.
His Sacred
Heart is the abode of little ones from where the science of
glorying in their infirmities is mastered. Let us enter into this abode where we can discover
the meaning of mercy and confidently repose in it.
Sanctity,
according to St. Therese, does not consist in this or that practices, but in a
disposition of the heart which makes one humble and little in God’s arms,
conscious of one’s weakness, and confident even to audacity in the goodness of
the Father.
Although we
recognise the pain of our humanity, let us – like Maya Angelou - leave behind
nights of terror and fear, and repose confidently in a daybreak that’s
wondrously clear. Let us bring the graces our faith bestows and be the dream
and hope of our world. Let us rise!
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