Fr. Don's Daily Reflection - April 28, 2024
Psalm 62: “In you alone is my soul at rest. My help comes from you.”
The three young people near us in the lounge, two women and one man, were youthfully boisterous and had struck up a brief conversation with me and my former student, in his thirties. When he left for a few moments one of the young women said to me: “He told me you were a former professor of his. Does he have a friend?” I understood she was not speaking in the most generic terms but about a “girlfriend.” I said, “Yes, she's an airline attendant, unable to be with us this evening.” “Darn,” she said, “All the nice ones are taken!”
Not a world-shaking conversation but so typical of the search that really counts most for most of us. Joke as we may about how the health club or cyberspace or church are good places to meet people, the quest for that one who will respond in a way that will realize our dream of love is at the heart of a good life. It would be very difficult to overrate the importance and seriousness of the quest. It is part of the quest referred to in those famous lines of Saint Augustine: “Our hearts are restless until they rest in You.”
Psalm 27: “I believe I shall see the Lord’s goodness / in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord; be strong; / be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord!”
