TRUST IN THE LORD ALWAYS

What are the things that make you sad? You may be emotionally very weak, get upset over little things and end up crying alone. You feel upset when your spouse or children are irresponsible and don’t help out at home. You feel burdened emotionally when someone is not being honest in term of relationship. You easily get disturbed when you feel less freedom in doing things, quarrelling with your best friends and over injustices that are happening surround you. You also feel miserable when you have lost someone that you have loved so much and you miss that person dearly and you are not going to get him/her back again. You feel boredom when your boss pressurises you with so many tasks to get it done at once.

When your organised plans for the day don’t go as planned, what is your reaction or response? What are some of the things that make you sad, helpless or hopeless. Do you get upset, irritated and angry?

Even when some of my plans or goals have not been carried out well in the parish, I feel upset. I too notice some poor response from you, my parishioners. When you are irresponsible with your commitments, I feel annoyed. Often times you surprise me with your objections to the plans and objectives of the parish and this upsets me. However, I am well aware that there will be many more ‘surprises’ from you but I will take them as a challenge in my ministry and I shall accept them as the will of God.

How do we avoid things that make us sad? How can we make ourselves strong in our weaknesses? Even our plans, objectives, goals can be brilliant and well planned but when they turn out to be upsetting or contradicted by others, do not lose your peace. Things can make us upset and surely, God will intervene to contradict our plans and goals just for a simple reason to bring down our pride in order to make us meek and humble. This will help us to grow in that virtue so pleasing to Jesus – meekness and humility. “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth,” (MT 5:5).

We may allow ourselves to be upset over little things right now but who knows you may succeed in many things one day. “You are worried and upset about many things,” but Jesus liberates us saying, “Only one thing is needed,” (MT 10:41-42). We meet many obstacles in our lives but just PRAY that in time, God will free us from all sadness, worries and troubles of life. We shall find courage, strength and peace to overcome all adversities of life. Therefore, just pray and reflect on the reality of God intervening and He will make His plans and wills to turn out better than ours.