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September Arrives: Random Thoughts
Sunday, September 13, 2015 11:06
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September Arrives: Random Thoughts
Looking up briefly from the book of life, the silence is welcome, thoughts drift to the future. In the present moment, a chapter continues to be written. Summer fades and September arrives, plans are set in place, future events are pencilled in. The days cling to the quickly fading light, for closing in, the autumn nights take centre stage. There is a gloom in the swirling clouds that gather overhead.
Death speaks aggressively, loudly, as another servant goes home; God rest his priestly soul. In the midst of this life, light does not walk away, but remains in view, reassuring, consoling, confirming the triumph of light, the promise and hope of life. The cold reality of death is warmed by the Cross of Christ, and the Resurrected Lord. So as each new word is revealed in the book of life, as each new day progresses, even as the dark collides with the light, I am kept ever close to the abiding presence, that is forever Christ. Whose pure, unconditional love lights each day, dispelling the darkness, and radiating the gloom, steading the trembling hand of life’s written chapters, putting joy into each new verse.
I prayed at Mass today for Fr Dominic Round, who died yesterday, he was my first parish priest after ordination, it was a busy parish and I was often wrapped up in my own world, brash, flippant, arrogant, a pain to live with at times. Fr Dominic was gentle and kind, aware of my failings and flaws, but willing to excuse and forgive, time and again. Many people found in him a generous compassion, a caring listener, and an accompanying accommodating spirit, one that shared the journey, lightening the burdens. May he rest in peace.
The Labour Party it seems with the election of its new leader has rediscovered socialism! The next few months may well inject a dose of realism too! I don’t belong to any political party, but pray that people of faith and integrity will use their voices to challenge injustice and fight for the needy and disadvantaged. The Beatitudes express a justice worth achieving, and the gospel is a creed worth living out!
I spoke of suffering at Mass today, one kind is self-inflicted, watching Villa 2 nil up but losing in the end 3-2. Oh the mystery of suffering!
Source: http://humblepiety.blogspot.com/2015/09/september-arrives-random-thoughts.html
