Day 23 – Irresistible Love
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The opposite is what Jesus is preparing for us, the many dwelling places that He assured us of in His Father's House. However, Jesus didn't just leave us on earth to do His own things in heaven. We know that He cannot wait to be united with us eternally in heaven. Jesus does not want to leave us orphaned on earth either. He wants to remain with us and in us. He desires to provide us with the best while we are still en route to the Father's House.
Jesus spent three years of His public ministry not only to prepare His Apostles but also all of us for our journey back home. Besides His teachings, He created a whole support system for us before He ascended to the Father. He instituted the Sacraments to grant us special graces, and more importantly, the Church to perpetuate and administer those Sacraments to us. He gave us His beloved Mother to accompany this Church of which we are a part. He left us His Word through the Gospels to guide us and to remain with us spiritually. But He wants to go even further. His love for us is beyond measure. He wants to dwell in us physically so that He abides in us and we abide in Him. And so, He humbles Himself to stay with us in the Eucharist. It is a sign of a complete abandonment of Himself to us. At the end, He also leaves us His Spirit, His very breath, His everything!
"Behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."
Jesus has really done everything He can for us! His love and sacrifice is a complete one. We must then ask ourselves, what more can we ask of Him?
We can be sure that our heavenly Father has exhausted every means reaching out to us, and will continue to do so. He is not a passive God as many of us might think He is.
Of His own accord, Abba Father chooses to break open His Heart to offer us His only begotten Son, whose Heart was in turn pierced by the lance of our sins. Whether we respond or not, our Heavenly Father is waiting for us on the other side, arms outstretched. Instead of condemning us, He desires to baptize us with His Spirit, which means an outpouring of all His love and graces without reserve.
Our exile is over the moment we respond positively to His invitation to go home. With our "fiat", our hidden, naked, and shameful self will be destroyed and our forgone identity restored.
REFLECTION
If what God has already done cannot move you to saying YES to His invitation to go home, what else does it take to bring you home?
Are you waiting for something to happen in your life for you to take your next move? Do you find yourself too passive or weak to respond to God's call?
TODAY'S PRAYER
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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「我們都像羊一樣迷了路，各走各自的路。」(依53:6)是的，我們確是迷了路的羊，且會越走越遠，聽不到天父愛的召喚和邀請。
上星期筆者曾在《歸途的掙扎》一文中曾分享過回家的腳步那麼沈重，是因為當時仍未能拋擺脫內心的枷鎖，一份困擾着的心魔。還記得後來與神父面談時，過往重重的名聲、地位、權力……，都似乎繼續向自己招手，不肯罷休。幸然，神父的靜心聆聽，慢慢的拆解，幫助筆者重新肯定自己，繼而神父給我說了一句話：聖堂的大門一直為眾人打開，祂是每天都在等着歸家者，就好像天上的慈父給筆者發出懇切的邀請。
誠然，天父確實每天給我們發出祂的邀請，祂期待着我們的回應，我們又是否願意接受這份愛的邀請呢？起來，行動吧！
愛的阿爸父：我衷心感激祢和耶穌為我們所做的一切，我願意返回父家，現在就起程，祢向我展示祢更大的愛情！父，我願意降服於祢，我全屬於祢！
阿爸父，我衷心感激祢為我所做的一切。我願意立即起程回歸父家。求祢繼續指引和帶領我走真理的道路，免除魔鬼的誘惑。我願意降服於祢，我是屬於祢的。亞孟。❤️???
「看！我同你們天天在一起，直到今世的終結。」(瑪竇福音 28:20)
只是這一句話，裡面含有多少天主對我們的愛情啊！天主一天24小時都與我們在一起。
然而我卻對祂不理不睬，有時候只看祂一兩眼就跟祂說：「我很忙不陪祢了。」
我情願花大量的時間去做無意義的事情，也不願意陪祂多一點時間。我明明知道有了天主就有了光明與幸福，卻總是愛躲在黑暗裡打混。想一想覺得自己為什麼那麼愚蠢呢！
天主聖神，請給我力量！走到天主跟前，常常陪伴祂！長長陪著祂！
转发第23天默想心得：
哪里有神比我们的天主更伟大！我真实感受到天主永远是主动的天主。祂不是高高在上的，祂特别亲近我们。祂的计划是那么深远，祂的爱是那么不可测量。祂细微地为我们准备好一切，不但是天上的地方，也是世间的生活。祂把自己给我们，把祂的母亲给我们，祂建立了教会和圣事，祂让宗徒和圣人们把信仰的宝库活灵活现地通传给我们。更重要的是，祂愿意，祂期待着我的参与。祂如此看重我，愿意我也积极，主动地参与祂的救恩。这救恩是祂早已为我预备的礼物。不勉强，不代表不热望。我对这份爱的最好回应就是回到祂身边，接受并善用祂为我预备的一切，积极、热情地以自己的生活作见证，通传这个好消息！
天主對我們的愛遠比我們對他的愛更大，更濃。世界上哪有別的神願將自己親生子，派遣來到世上，救贖人類來證明自己的對世人的愛是那麼真。天主就是活生生的住在我們生活中。主，我願意盡一切所能來取悅於你，把你放在心中首位。
我從前就好像拿着單程票進入黑洞，已經進去了，但有聲音叫我折返；我回應了，卻發現自己是在蹣跚地回家。發覺回程路是艱辛的，因為路上佈滿荊棘和碎石，它們是由我的輭弱、自私、自滿、不忍耐、沒恆心、懶散、失責、嚴人寬己、沒有全心信主………..等等的錯誤，一再堆積起來的。
祈求主耶穌和聖母瑪利亞的助佑，讓我能再生一顆謙卑和信靠的心，不要停下腳步，因為天主父正熱切地等待我投入祂的懷中。
我知道天父是仁慈的，祂對我非常的忍耐。時時寬恕我的過失。但是我就好像找到了祂的弱點一樣；我經常給自己理由，一次又一次的繼續做不應該做的壞事。天主是緩於發怒的，祂會寬恕我做這件事的，因為這只是少事一宗，是無傷大雅的。只要我向祂在祈禱時認一聲錯，祂必定會再寬恕我？因為人是軟弱的，魔鬼太厲害了，我不能自控，又跟從了它作了壞事。這是否我找的籍口呢？是否我要天主真的懲罰了我，我纔能洗心革面呢？我是否不時地在試探天主呢？我是否真的碰了釘，纔肯回頭呢？是否要到了盡頭，到了無路可走的時候，纔能罷休呢？到了泥足深陷時，纔請天主伸出祂的手，從死亡中拯救我出來呢？主啊，請你現在就派聖神把我喝醒，不要等到我到了不能自拔的時候，由小罪累積成大罪，那時便悔之已晚了。願光明歸於父，及子，及聖神，亞孟。
耶穌爸爸，祢的慈愛及寬恕教導，我有愧於心，不敢求祢赦罪。我該被罰，但哀求祢救援我想幫助的人。????♂️
I truly appreciate what our Heavenly Father and Jesus have done for me as on February 26, 2021 at around 8:45 a.m. I was hit by a car while walking across the street on my way to Mass to Chinese Martyrs Catholic Church, I thought I was dead. But very happy that I was alive and not dead nor crippled nor row over by the car. God is protecting me all the time.