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TODAY’S WORD…

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Teach us how short our life is,

so that we may become wise.

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– Psalm 90:12 (GNT)

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REFLECTION…

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Only God can provide the wisdom

that lets us make sense of human life,

short as it is

and marked by hard work and suffering.

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And so we ask to be given wisdom

– not the world’s foolishness,

which comes under the guise of astuteness,

but divine wisdom,

which is always clothed in love.

We have no excuses

– the Father has been very generous with us:

He sent His Only Son to patiently and lovingly instruct us

through all that He said and did as He walked this earth.

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The Father also sent us the Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ name.

As Jesus Himself explains to us,

“the Holy Spirit…will teach you everything

and make you remember all that I have told you.

Peace is what I leave with you;

it is my own peace that I give you.

I do not give it as the world does.

Do not be worried and upset;

do not be afraid.”

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QUOTE…

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“There are no bad or inopportune days.

All days are good, for serving God.

Days become bad

only when men spoil them with their lack of faith,

their laziness and their indolence,

which turns them away from working with God and for God.

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‘At all times I will bless the Lord.’ (Ps 34:1)

Time is a treasure that melts away.

It escapes from us,

slipping through our fingers like water through the mountain rocks.

Tomorrow will soon be another yesterday.

Our lives are so very short.

Yesterday has gone and today is passing by.

But what a great deal can be done for the love of God

in this short space of time!”

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– St. Josemaria Escriva

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REPETITIVE PRAYER FOR TODAY…

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Come Holy Spirit, teach me how short my life is,

so that I may become wise.

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