My plans and God's Plans

‘What does it profit you to give God one thing if He asks of you another?  Consider what it is God wants, and then do it.’  This reflection is taken from Sayings of Light and Love by St John of the Cross, and it certainly resonates for me in my life.  I spent many years offering my life to God in the context of a certain vocation only to have it borne in on me that this was not to be my vocation.  Gradually I had to accept that God had other plans for my life; offering my life to Him was about discovering what His plans were rather than implementing mine.  My apparent embrace of discipleship had been tainted by self-will, and the business of my life henceforth must be to let God eradicate that self-will.  A humbling, even humiliating discovery and yet in the end liberating.

Intercessions:

Cancer: Brian Davis, Bernard (and wife Angela caring for him), Jacqui, Theresa K, Fr Jon Bielowski (Plymouth Diocese), Catherine, Alex (43 with five children), Marie

Illness:  Katy Keeling

Siena, Elara – sick children

David OCDS – housebound

Sophia – blind infant

Grace – troubling ailments, job difficulties, family (deceased mother and health of father)

Mark – brain infection

Michael – youngster with occult influences

Defence of the unborn and the elderly

RIP Connor Calleja (20 yrs old)