". . . Thy Will be done, on Earth, as it is in Heaven. . ."

How many times do we say that prayer, and TRULY submit ourselves to it?   (The OUR FATHER)

I was thinking the past week of a Homily a visiting priest to our parish said when he gave his HOMILY last Sunday. 

". . . . Thy Kingdom Come,  Thy Will be done, on Earth, as it is in Heaven. . . ."

Watch and Listen!  Michael W.Smith- "Our Father Prayer"

When I think of these words from The Lord himself,  I am forced to submit myself.  How can I truly live this out in a prayer?  We pray b/c we want to, b/c we feel the need to have a relationship with God, our Lord, Our Savior.  So why not truly MEAN what we say then?  Jesus taught us everything we NEEDED to know, in order to attain Heaven.  His prayer to us, the Our Father, teaches us not only to fully TRUST and have confidence in the Father, but a submission on such a level, that we cannot possibly also live as WE want.  We turn into a new servant, with love towards Him, with a submission of love and obedience.  

"you cant have the cake and eat it too."  Ever heard of that one?  How do you suppose one can "say" the Our Father, and live in ways that contradict His Laws?   I think that meditating on the actual words of this prayer, could bring such a conviction to the soul.

I have been so troubled lately with the condition of our country, America.  I have been crushed with a sadness that I cannot put words to.  I feel powerless without prayer.  Such a great and wonderful people, crippled by their own wills.  Don't get me wrong, there are times when -you know it too- we sincere lovers of Christ put our own wills first.  Is it still wrong, when we compare it to the larger-scale "evils" around us?  Yes.  Any act of selfishness, and willful disobedience is offensive and causes separation from His Grace and Compromises His Will for us.  Prayer and mediating on the words of our all-time best guided prayer to us, the our Father, submerges us into conviction, and conversion, which is the fruit of the virtue to prayer. 

God is molding you with each sincere act of love you perform.  he is molding you with each act of mercy.  He is molding you with each act of compassion, each act of selflessness.  He is chiseling away the ugly of sin in your heart, and cleansing it with a refining fire of love, that only he can give, and thus allow us to give back in return.  I pray for this growing love in myself. 

Are some of you afraid to want what God wants??  For some, it might mean, giving up something you don't want to give up.  Maybe its the freedom to "choose", maybe its the kind of life you want to lead.  Maybe its your money, your job, your stature, or a number of many other things.  I know this can be true, because at a time, and still occasionally, its hard to pray that part of the "Our Father".   That is the struggle of the society these days.  We all know it.   "If I should want what God wants, then it means I shouldn't or I should do certain things that might cramp my lifestyle."  It is the hardest thing humanly possible, like I said before:  TRUSTING IN GOD.    But we must let Jesus take the wheel.  Only then will we be joined together on HIS path for us. 

Let your "YES" be a "YES" & your "NO" be a "NO"- on Planned Parenthood scandal

We have heard it in Holy Scripture. . . " let your Yes, be yes, and your no be no."  How often can we pin a moment in our lives, the country's politics, and family life where we haven't exactly said what we meant?  It seems that today, we tend to "imply" that we mean yes, without truly meaning yes, or imply no, when we sort-of mean a no.  Others deserve our honesty.   How can one truly know how we feel or what we stand for, if we say what we say only to appease others?  Can your "yes" or "no" get lost in the journey from your mouth to the other's ears?  God wants us to be honest.  He wants us to mean well, yes, and meaning well, we should be giving our YES to Him first. 

See, I realized today, that so many people are "in the middle"...  A sad and discouraging story for our country's health. Facebook, above all, these days, has ways of revealing truths and ways of people when we thought one thing, we discover another.  Its is strange.  The big issue these days, involve Planned Parenthood and the moral degenerativeness of that organization on society.    Some people believe that this organization's "good" services to women outweigh the evil of abortion.  Or claim abortions are the last thing they do. . .  ???? Say What?  They choose to support the "good" and can say that they don't agree with abortion, that shutting down Planned Parenthood would be jeopardizing and risking the Health "Care" of women, and families.  If you're reading this blog, I assume you may be like me, in believing this cannot make sense.  It doesn't.  It is ridiculous.  Scripture tells us that our YES should be a YES. And our NO be a NO.   One cannot possibly say something like, ". . .  well, they are mostly good, so I support them, even though I don't agree with such-and-such. . . "  something like this doesn't follow the teaching of Christ that our YES be a YES, or our no being a no.  We  should be so careful not to be ambiguous, or equivocal on issues such as morals.  One would have to assume that issues of morals especially of the common people, have caused our own government to be lead into an "appeasing" mode of conduct when it comes to legislature, and passing laws.  How many times have you even witnessed that our leaders can't even honestly define their OWN yeses and nos?  It's a terrible facade that most don't see, or even think about it as an epidemic.  But it's disastrous.