Hello everyone. I hope you are well and keeping safe.
Today, with the help of God, I will clean up my two desks, one downstairs and one upstairs. The one upstairs is pretty easy, a bunch of magazines, some books that I have been reading. Anyone else read a few books at a time? I find myself becoming less interested in one and more so in the other. I don't recommend it! However lately I have been reading on and off again
a new biography of Dorothy Day by John Loughery and Blythe Randolph. I find it is stunning for its detail on her life. Incredibly researched and brutally honest.
Downstairs desk will be the giant I must meet and conquer. But for now, I head over to Church for Mass and I will take you with me.
Permit me to leave you with a challenging insight from Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M.
For Jesus, faith is not opposed to not believing in God, it doesn’t mean you go to church, or that you’re into religion or that you say “Lord, Lord!” (see Matthew 7:21). Faith for Jesus is the opposite of anxiety. If you are anxious, if you are trying to control everything, if you are worried about many things, you don’t have faith, according to Jesus. You do not trust that God is good and on your side. You’re trying to do it all yourself, lift yourself up by your own bootstraps. The giveaway is control. That’s a good litmus test of the quality of your faith. People of faith don’t have to control everything, nor do they have to change people. You have the wisdom to know the difference, as the Twelve-Step people say. You cannot “fix” the soul. “Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on God’s saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well. So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself ’” (Matthew 6:33-34a).