Fr. Don's Daily Reflection - May 7, 2024
Psalm 62: “In you alone is my soul at rest. My help comes from you.”
All too clearly and frequently in terms of physicality we come full circle in our lives. The dependence and weakness of infancy once again seems to be our lot in old age. Someone else has to clean us up or clean up after us, augment our mobility, and it can get worse.... A lot of this is not very attractive to any of us, but the abdication of competitiveness and aggression, an increased tolerance of human foibles, these are more admirable qualities which age can foster.
Our Lord and much religious and mystical tradition see the ideal of human development to be a recovery of the simplicity and lack of self-consciousness of the infant. Only this time it can be willingly and freely chosen. A French poet wrote this: “Genius is childhood recaptured at will” (Baudelaire). For our purposes we could alter it to read: “True discipleship is childhood recaptured freely by acceptance of God’s grace.”
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!”
