The yawning of the altar boy awakened me from my daydream
just in time to hear the ironic but true words from the book of Wisdom.
“Who can know God’s counsel,
or who can conceive what the LORD intends?
For the deliberations of mortals are
timid,
and unsure are our plans.
For the corruptible body burdens the soul
and the earthen shelter weighs down the
mind that has many concerns.
And scarce do we guess the things on
earth,
and what is within our grasp we find with
difficulty;
but when things are in heaven, who can
search them out?
Or who ever knew your counsel, except you
had given wisdom
and sent your holy spirit from on high?
And thus were the paths of those on earth
made straight.”
WIS 9:13-18B
I spend too much time worrying about my shelter…my house of
sticks…my house of bricks…my earthly stuff.
Dear Lord Jesus,
Unburden my soul
So when I get old
Earthly stuff I’ll hate
When my path is straight.
Amen.
Amen.
