Remain ever in my Heart, and trust in me, O my son!
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As we recovered, we thanked God for his goodness in sending us a little bout of the flu. It showed us our weakness, and in our weakness it showed us the strength that St. Paul always talks about when he lists his frailties.
Grace in Every Season (January 25)
Whenever things that we consider ‘bad’ hit us, we often want to send it off as soon as possible, and set about rebuking the devil. I’m not saying that shouldn’t be done… I’m the first to run to St. Michael in turbulent times… but we also need to consider how our own actions possibly got us here, and how by allowing the current storm, the Lord is actually manifesting the healing and we need to confront it with humility and docility.
Very much like many of the symptoms we feel when we are sick are not perpetrated by the actual virus or bacteria, but by our own body’s immune response… a healing process that is not only on the job attacking the virus at hand but will strengthen us from future attacks and unless it’s grossly over active, we need to just go through, let it do its job and then revel in how wonderfully created we are. We need to sit and trust the process. Then we can take a look at prevention.
That’s very similar to our spiritual life and all the little ‘flu’s’ that get thrown at us as we live our faith in this world. God has us, He will not let us go. Those hard blips in life show us how strong we can actually be with Him and all of heaven by our side. We can do things that we couldn’t imagine doing, if we hadn’t been thrown into one situation or another. And we come out stronger on the other side, more prepared for His service in the future.
So in our humanity we clamor for answers, and seek resolutions to our varied and abundant weaknesses of one form or another, but Jesus says to us, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
So we can sit back knowing and fully trusting that God is still in control, He hasn’t abandoned His post.