Have you ever noticed the connection between what is going on in your interior life and what is taking place exteriorly? Often, Our Lord uses the events and circumstances of our daily life to draw attention to a work He is doing deep within us.
Let me give you an example. Several years ago I was sitting in my family room deep in prayer. I had just meditated on a particular passage of Scripture and was earnestly seeking what the Lord was saying to me through it.
Interiorly, I was very aware of His presence and I knew He was about a work of grace. As I waited in silence, listening for His voice with my "spiritual" ears, I seemed to hear Him tell me He was healing me of a great hurt and that He was about a work of restoration in me. He seemd to say that He was making new a certain area of my being (2 Cor. 5:17; Rev. 21:5).
Just as these words were penetrating my heart, I audibly heard a loud 
ripping noise that sounded like the very roof was being torn off of my house! Startled, I all but jumped off of the couch. My eyes flew open and it took a second or two to realize what was going on. I had recently hired workmen to replace the screening around my pool area and they had begun to strip away the old material at the very moment Our Lord was telling me He was making all things new!
Tears sprang to my eyes even as I began to laugh out loud. How poignantly God was emphasizing His work! He was stripping away the debris of my woundedness and replacing it with new life -- and He had seen fit to accompany His work with sound effects to make the point!
What is happening in your life today? Is it worth a bit of reflection to see what God might be saying to you through it? Remember what Jesus tells us in Matthew's gospel, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you..." (7:7). Let's ask, seek, and find that which God is about in us today. He may well be making a very big statement!
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"Into [the Rosary] one may take his whole life - joys and sorrows, men and things, everything - as he would take it to someone whose presence he finds restful, not to find out how he might act with more success, but to put everything into a proper light."
Romano Guardini
For Reflection:
Do I bring the whole of my life to the Rosary when I pray? What is the difference between going to pray searching for an answer and going to prayer seeking wisdom? Which is the greater gift? How can the Rosary help me to attain it?
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The photo of adorable five year-old Boaz Reigstad holding a sign that says "I am the 10 percent of children with Down Syndrome who survived Roe v. Wade" has become a sensation on
Facebook.
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The cozy relationship between the Obama Administration and the abortion industry became even more apparent yesterday when it announced that Dana Singiser, who currently works in the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, will be leaving her post in December to take a position as Vice President for Public Policy at Planned Parenthood.
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Attacks on Christianity are coming fast and furious with three high-profile cases surfacing in the U.S. just in the past week.
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October 30 to November 6, 2011 marks the 24th annual White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) campaign which is designed to raise awareness about the scourge of pornography.
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"The immense good which this noble devotion (the Rosary) has done to the world is well known. How many, by its means, have been delivered from sin! How many led to live a holy life! How many to a good death, and are now saved!"
St. Alphonsus Liguori
For Reflection:
Do I know anyone who needs to be delivered from serious sin? Who is living a life lacking in holiness? Who is now confronting his or her death? Today, I will use the weapon of the Rosary to fight for them through my prayers.
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The Girl Scouts of Colorado have decided to accept a seven year-old boy who believes he's a girl, saying that their policy is to accept anyone who "identifies as a girl".
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Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the John Paul II's historic meeting for peace in the Italian town of Assisi, and was remembered by Pope Benedict XVI with a special pilgrimage to the site along with representatives of other religions and non-believers.
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Special Report by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The raunchy contents of New York City's mandated sex ed program has shocked the nation, but it's no surprise if you consider the sordid roots of sex education in America.
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