'How was the meeting?'

‘How was it?’ – we sometimes get asked by others after one of our Carmelite meetings; or we ask someone else that question after such a meeting - and occasionally there is a feeling that it was spoiled by an individual talking too much or by a tension or an unspoken conflict within the group or by too much discussion of a trivial topic.  But it is good to remember that our meetings are God’s meetings, that He has called each person there and that He is doing an invisible and intangible work in us.  We are the clay, He is the potter.  Because His work is largely (though not always) invisible and intangible, I don’t know what He is doing in me.  One thing however I know – that I must be patient, because time reveals at least something about the potter’s work.  In other words, with perseverance, commitment, humility, I change in good ways, I grow more mature spiritually, I know I am going deeper.  But it generally takes years, and indeed perhaps a good few years.  

Intercessions:

Marie, Bernard (and wife Angela, Agnes – cancer

Siena, Elara – sick children

Rosemarie – multiple afflictions

RIP Philippa Hodges OCDS – funeral Thursday

S – in very urgent need of a job and income