Friday, September 17, 2010

Mary TV Daily Reflection 9/17/10

Angela and MaryJo
(c) Mary TV (Angela and Mary Jo)
 

September 17, 2010
St. Robert Bellarmine

Dear Family of Mary!

"Little children, you are mine.  I love you and want you to surrender to me so that I can lead you to God." (May 25, 1988) 

"God will bestow great gifts on you if you surrender yourselves to him." (December 19, 1985)

Last weekend I stayed with my daughter and son-in-law, and their 5 beautiful children.  It was so much fun.  Everyone played hard and wore themselves out.  At bedtime, Angela (6) and Mary Jo (4) had to go to bed in their brother's bunk bed because Grandma and Grandpa were using their bed.  The bunk bed was a bit hard to get into. So when little Mary Jo was told to get in bed she let out a wail, "But I'm just a little tiny girl and I need some help!"  She is quite dramatic!  But what she said stuck with me.  It was really anointed by the Holy Spirit. 

"I'm just a little tiny girl!"  I have been feeling just like Mary Jo lately.  As I face different problems, tasks, and difficulties, I am becoming more and more aware of how small I am.  I really have control over very little in my life.  The jobs I have to do are all much more complicated than I can handle.  I don't even understand the first thing about my computer or the internet or cameras, and on and on.  Family relationships are a mystery to me!  I don't have much wisdom on any front.  "I'm just a little tiny girl and I need some help!"  

But I think that it is ok that I am so small.  In fact, it might be that God is leading me into this littleness, and that it is part of His plan for me.  I listened to Mother Nadine talk about spiritual childhood in a formation talk from the series, "Fires of Hope".  She was sharing about how the Father has been leading her into just such a childlike relationship with Him.  She shared about driving down an interstate once, and the gas pedal got stuck and she lost control of the car. She found herself just calling out, "Father, Father, into your hands I commend my spirit!"  She ended up under the dash board, across the interstate, up against a tree.  But she was unharmed! No oncoming car had hit her because a police car just happened to see her and had slowed them all down when he saw her go out of control. And she said that it happened on Father's day.  She attributed her safety to the Father's intervention.  

I have been feeling the same desire to just be a little child with the Father.  The other day I made a list of things that had to be done to our house, and then I just felt despair.  I had no idea how they would be fixed.  So I turned to the Father and just said, "Father, I just can't do any of these big jobs.  I just can't do it.  I am going to leave them with you."  To my amazement, within a week, they were all done.  It was a miracle to me!  I still don't understand how they all got done!  Denis did some of them, and he hired a nice man to do the one's he couldn't.  It was so easy!  

I know this sounds simple.  But it seems that the Father wants us to walk with Him, as children.  He wants us to rely on Him completely, and ask Him to act in our lives.  He is capable of everything.  We only have to ask and trust.  So much of what needs to be done can only be done by the Father.  We are His little, tiny ones.  

Psalm 37 speaks about relying on the Lord: 

Trust in the LORD, and do good; 
so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security.
Take delight in the LORD, 
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the LORD; 
trust in him, and he will act.
He will bring forth your vindication as the light, 
and your right as the noonday.
Be still before the LORD, and wait patiently for him; (Ps. 37: 3-7a) 

I am going to pray like Mary Jo from now on.  It's the truth!  "Father, I'm just a little tiny girl and I need help!"  

In Jesus and Mary!
Cathy Nolan


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