Last time I offered for your consideration paragraph 27
of The Catechism of the Catholic Church.
If you need to look back, go to http:// spiritualityforbeginners.blogspot.com.
Today, let’s take a closer look at the opening phrase: The desire for God is written in the human
heart . . .
Are you aware of this? Do you feel within yourself a
strong desire to be united with God? Are your choices and decisions based on
what will move you closer to God rather than farther away from God?
Maybe you’re not. I certainly know that there have been
times in my life, and actually still are, when this desire is not what
overrules everything else. And I know for sure that many people are not
consciously aware that they have such a desire within them.
Could it be that there is a connection between this
desire for God and the fact that we are created in God’s image (see my post
from June 26)? Pope Francis hints at the connection in The Joy of the Gospel:
“ . . . we become
fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond
ourselves in order to attain the fullest truth of our being.
So, if all this be true, we benefit from knowing how we
are ”knit together in our mother’s womb” (Psalm 139).
Contemplative
prayer: Just sit in the quiet, calm yourself with your breathing, and then
just reflect on how God, in creating you, put within you this wonderful desire,
far greater and more appealing than any other desire we might have, even when
we forget it, even when we sometimes might be oblivious to it. It is there. He
gave it to you. It is yours. It is your destiny.
more next time.
