My last week has been hard . While work was getting frustrating and my time was getting wasted in worrying and endless waiting and gossiping! I was extremely unhappy so much so that I remember talking to my mother about how I wanted to discontinue the course and return home.
But like the stubborn mother of an equally stubborn child she refused to listen to any of my whining and said , stick to it and keep going and while I continued to enlist complaints about everything that was wrong and everyone who wronged me, my smart mother replies ” make it your lenten sacrifice”… I was stumped!
I never realised how much I had kept my faith into humans and their behaviors that when they did disappoint me I would get so shattered and reflexively want to run away from the situation .. may it be at work or personal! While my mommy dearest seemed to know me way better than my own self … a much needed visit to church and Eucharistic celebration of sunday mass and I was much more calmer and at peace!
Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings,
who seeks his strength in flesh,
whose heart turns away from the LORD.
He is like a barren bush in the desert
that enjoys no change of season,
often as humans , we expect a certain behavior or attitude form another human .. may it be family or work or strangers! But not everyone adheres to it, and do not follow the mannerisms one would expect! So we should not be shattered or upset when some one does not do as we or societal norms hope they would but place our faith in the higher power, The ALMIGHTY FATHER! Yes! cause HE does not disappoint.
Prayer:
Dearest Lord, in this Lenten season let me offer up to you every human who does not meet our expectations and ask us to help forgive them. Help and guide us Lord to have faith in you and your timely grace and not be let down by earthly failures!
AMEN
