Reflection - 74

We cannot possess anything as our own, because we have not our resources from ourselves and we are not created for ourselves, but for God. We cannot possess our soul except in God. We possess our mind in the light of his truth and our will in the grace of his love. Hence when Adam fell from the paradise, he lost the possession of his soul. So long as our mind adheres to God his truth and love. If we follow the seductions of the error, we lose the possession of ourselves. As our mortal life is only free when we get sufficient air and light, our spiritual life is only free and self possessed when we live in truth and love of God.

Patience is the virtue which gives the possession of the soul enabling the will to keep the soul in peace to regulate its actions and desires by the light and justice with a constant view to its final end. Impatience is the beginning of every moment that takes the soul away from God and so from its self possession. The greatest thing for us is the perfection of our souls; and the saints teach us this perfection consists in doing our ordinary actions well. We do them well when we do the patiently and lovingly, we have to perfect our ordinary actions for the love of God that we may be perfect in our human way before our heavenly father.

We profess to be the patient followers of God. Don’t we? Do we understand how deep the patient goes which rests the humanity of Christ upon the firm foundation of his divinity? Do we understand how the Patience gives to his human will the strength to hold the will of his father in the midst of the disturbance from the society? So let us reflect am I patient. We can’t even too some diminutive sufferings. Remember the patient suffering of our lord were the cause of his glory such as resurrection and ascension. The patient suffering of Mary was the cause of her glory such as assumption. So similar patience in suffering bring us to his glory.         

Bro. Allen Alex