The reason for my tears, for the Mother’s tears, is my children who, in great numbers, live unmindful of God, immersed in the pleasures of the flesh, and are hastening irreparably to their per-dition.
Blue Book #4c
All across the world people find time to enter into solitude, fasting, and prayer in order to meet Christ. Prayer must become an integrated part of our daily lives, the most important part. Then will our house of sanctity rise high and be well built on the rock of faith. Then will our fields be fertile in the Lord, bringing forth a good harvest.
Grace in Every Season (January 18)
We are living a great part of our lives unmindful of Him… yes ‘WE’, not just ‘THEM’… because I for sure have moments of straying…of forgetting.
So what happens in those moments? The world gets in, that’s what. The enemy knows how to best get at us, so if he can’t get at us with comforts and ‘riches’ then he’ll throw some problems our way to make us feel like we need to step in and handle this on our own. Get us to busily spin our tails, and use up our own strength. Then ultimately give in to overwhelm and hopelessness. That’s the enemy’s game plan.
But God has a different plan… for us to live life WITH Him… all of it, the good and the not so good. The way we accomplish that is through constantly seeking to have Him before our eyes… do the opposite of what the world is beckoning…solitude, fasting and prayer… these get to the heart of self denial, of emptying ourselves, so that He can now fill us the way that only He can. Then to keep growing in our spiritual life.
