Monday, July 31, 2006
Hey Folks...
Today I decided it would be fun to write a "Len" e-mail. Hope some you will enjoy this.
Hey Folks
The other day I was sitting in Spanish Class working on a composition. Now the funny thing about being in spanish class and writing in spanish is the fact that I really don't know any spanish. I can speak spanish about as well as I can play guitar, and just ask Len that's not very good.
So I was sitting there staring at the blank paper. This paper needed to have writing on it in the next 20 mintues, or I was going to fail the assignment.
It reminded me of other times I've had to write things. We've all had that 10 page paper, or talk for a retreat that we needed to write. Sometimes we have all these great ideas going through our head and are really excited about the possibilities of what may happen. But then we inevitibly sit down with our pen and paper to write and something happens that stops us dead in our tracks. Maybe some idea we had for the basis of the paper or talk turned out that it wouldnt work. Maybe the whole paper or talk was based on that one idea. And that result in writer's block and this can be a very scary feeling, especially when the paper or talk is due the next day!
I was reflecting on this in my prayer time today. Sometimes our life can be a lot like writing a paper or talk. We have all these great ideas about what we want to do with our life. They can even be great ideas that we think we are including Jesus in on. We can plan to get married to our boyfriend and girlfriend and raise a truly Catholic family ( a noble vocation). Or we could apply to a seminary or convent to dedicate our life to the Lord in a religious vocation. But sometimes our plans just don't work out the way we thought they were going to.
Our boyfriend or girlfriend could break up with us, the seminary or convent could not accept us. Then all of a sudden we have these great plans, contingent on our one idea that are suddenly going no where. We have encountered a big blank piece of paper in our vocation.
But this is where the metaphor between the big paper or talk you have to write and our vocational discernment ends. You see we may have a deadline for the paper, but when it comes to our Vocation, we are completely on God's time. We may think that we want to know right now what we're suppossed to do with our life. But if we are diligently praying and trusting in God to lead us in our discernment, then there is really no reason to be pushing a deadline. The hard part is handing over the pen and trusting God to write the story of our vocation for us.
We may think we know what we want to do, but we have to always remember God has a plan for us. God reminds us through the words of the Prophet Jeremiah, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" Jeremiah 1:5.
God's always had a plan for us, the trick is to completely let go and trust in that plan. There is a reason God has placed in whatever roles we have. Whether it's Kyrios team, a certain college, a certain job, and it even sometimes explains why we are friends with certain people. We must trust that God has a plan for us, and will in His time present us the people, tools, and most importantly the courage we need to discern what the Lord has planned for us.
Have a good week Len, Colleen, and I are praying for you.
JOIN US THIS SUNDAY FOR OUR KYRIOS 28 CLOSING LIFE TEEN MASS
KYRIOS TEAM WE STILL NEED YOUR REGISTRATION AND MONEY BY THIS WEDNESDAY
CONTINUE TO PRAY PRAY PRAY FOR THE RETREAT
THERE WILL BE NO LIFE NIGHT THIS SUNDAY OR PEER MINISTRY ON MONDAY DUE TO OUR KYRIOS CLOSING MASS
Hey Folks
The other day I was sitting in Spanish Class working on a composition. Now the funny thing about being in spanish class and writing in spanish is the fact that I really don't know any spanish. I can speak spanish about as well as I can play guitar, and just ask Len that's not very good.
So I was sitting there staring at the blank paper. This paper needed to have writing on it in the next 20 mintues, or I was going to fail the assignment.
It reminded me of other times I've had to write things. We've all had that 10 page paper, or talk for a retreat that we needed to write. Sometimes we have all these great ideas going through our head and are really excited about the possibilities of what may happen. But then we inevitibly sit down with our pen and paper to write and something happens that stops us dead in our tracks. Maybe some idea we had for the basis of the paper or talk turned out that it wouldnt work. Maybe the whole paper or talk was based on that one idea. And that result in writer's block and this can be a very scary feeling, especially when the paper or talk is due the next day!
I was reflecting on this in my prayer time today. Sometimes our life can be a lot like writing a paper or talk. We have all these great ideas about what we want to do with our life. They can even be great ideas that we think we are including Jesus in on. We can plan to get married to our boyfriend and girlfriend and raise a truly Catholic family ( a noble vocation). Or we could apply to a seminary or convent to dedicate our life to the Lord in a religious vocation. But sometimes our plans just don't work out the way we thought they were going to.
Our boyfriend or girlfriend could break up with us, the seminary or convent could not accept us. Then all of a sudden we have these great plans, contingent on our one idea that are suddenly going no where. We have encountered a big blank piece of paper in our vocation.
But this is where the metaphor between the big paper or talk you have to write and our vocational discernment ends. You see we may have a deadline for the paper, but when it comes to our Vocation, we are completely on God's time. We may think that we want to know right now what we're suppossed to do with our life. But if we are diligently praying and trusting in God to lead us in our discernment, then there is really no reason to be pushing a deadline. The hard part is handing over the pen and trusting God to write the story of our vocation for us.
We may think we know what we want to do, but we have to always remember God has a plan for us. God reminds us through the words of the Prophet Jeremiah, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" Jeremiah 1:5.
God's always had a plan for us, the trick is to completely let go and trust in that plan. There is a reason God has placed in whatever roles we have. Whether it's Kyrios team, a certain college, a certain job, and it even sometimes explains why we are friends with certain people. We must trust that God has a plan for us, and will in His time present us the people, tools, and most importantly the courage we need to discern what the Lord has planned for us.
Have a good week Len, Colleen, and I are praying for you.
JOIN US THIS SUNDAY FOR OUR KYRIOS 28 CLOSING LIFE TEEN MASS
KYRIOS TEAM WE STILL NEED YOUR REGISTRATION AND MONEY BY THIS WEDNESDAY
CONTINUE TO PRAY PRAY PRAY FOR THE RETREAT
THERE WILL BE NO LIFE NIGHT THIS SUNDAY OR PEER MINISTRY ON MONDAY DUE TO OUR KYRIOS CLOSING MASS
# posted by The REAL Tommy @ 11:07 AM 
