Names have a big role to play in this adventure we call life. Success is measured, in this world, often by
the titles we hold. We think that
stature is all important but we forget that what we call ourselves is not as
important as how we live our lives and of the people we touch along the
way. I believe we are judged not by what
we accomplish but by the good we leave behind.
Many of us have riches but no faith.
Many have faith but no riches.
For most of us, rich or poor, we lie somewhere between the light and the
darkness. We seek happiness but realize
that it comes with a price. Sacrifices
must be met, goals must be achieved and mountains need to be climbed to arrive
at what we wish to become.
We go through life seemingly without a clue, believing in anything that
makes our material life seem fulfilling.
Often what we find is a feeling of wanting. Is this enough? Is this all that there is? Is there more? Is there someone or something watching out
for me?
The answers are there,
if we can only stop for a moment and let the rush of life catch up with
us. Look up, look within, there is
somebody looking back at you, waiting for you to respond. He has always resided in our hearts and our minds;
we have just been too busy to listen. He
waits the day of our return like a jubilant child. His name is Jesus, His name is Savior, His
name is home.
Through prayer and
supplication, we find that many of the things we thought we needed in life are
not as important as we originally thought.
Material needs become secondary to the very nature of being with Him and
in the adventure of finding our true self.
It can be very uncomfortable, but the process of reshaping us into His
image can often be fraught with the fire by which we are forged.
It is important to remember that through these trials, “It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the
desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an idea, the
refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to
commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making
the world more human and more fraternal.” – Blessed Pope John Paul II.
Live your life as
today were your last here on Earth.
Measure your success by what you leave behind as virtue, honor and
love. Your name is not as important as
how others speak of it. But for Jesus, His
is a name by which every knee should bow, by which every ember should glow, a
most holy name, His and eternal, forevermore.
May you find the way,
the truth and the light. May you feel
the gentle breath of the Holy Spirit and may His peace, God’s peace, be with
you, always.