By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--August 22, 2023
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In this fateful week ahead, Wednesday will see Fox News host the first 2024 Election Primary Debate giving the media spotlight to mostly RINO candidates. On Friday authorities in Georgia will present a persecuted presidential front runner in a pre-planned mugshot hoping it will frame former president Donald Trump as a felon forever.
For the masses, it’s more than unsettling and demoralizing to see the weaponizing of the Halls of Justice getting a kick start in the Peach State.
Yet, it’s crucial for little people everywhere to remember that not only have we been here before, but have been here many, many times before in world history.
No matter how brutal the pharisees, the horrors unleashed by King Herod, Hitler, Stalin and Mao, society somehow survived.
No matter where we now find ourselves, we can get through this week and whatever follows in fervent prayer to God Almighty in the name of His Only Begotten Son, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
A reminder from Fr. Francis Xavier Lasance in the little book known world-wide that Father entitled, ‘My Prayer-Book’:
“One little Secret of a Happy Life’:”One secret of a sweet and happy Christian life is learning to live by the day. It is the long stretches that tire us. We think of life as a whole, running on for us. We can not carry this load until we are three score and ten. We can not fight this battle continually for half a century. But really there are no long stretches. Life does not come to us all at one time; it comes only a day at a time. Even to-morrow is never ours until it becomes to-day, and we have nothing to do with it but to pass down to it a fair and good inheritance in to-day’s work well done, and today’s life well lived.
“It is a blessed secret this, of living by the day. Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, till nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Any one can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely until the sun goes down. And this is all life ever means to us—just one little day. “Do today’s duty; fight today’s temptations, and do not weaken or distract yourself by looking forward to things you can not see, and could not understand if you saw them.” God gives us nights to shut down upon our little days. We can not see beyond. Short horizons make life easier and give us one of the blessed secrets of brave, true holy living.
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“Two principles form the unalterable basis of the virtue of abandonment or absolute surrender to divine providence.
“First Principle: Nothing is done, nothing happens, either in the material or in the moral world, which God has not foreseen from all eternity, and which He has not willed, or at least permitted.
“Second Principle: God can will nothing, He can permit nothing, but in view of the end, He proposed to Himself in creating the world; i.e., in view of His glory and the glory of the Man-God, Jesus Christ, His only Son.
“To these two principles we shall add a third, which will complete the elucidation of this whole subject, viz.: As long as man lives upon earth, God desires to be glorified through the happiness of this privileged creature; and consequently in God’s designs the interests of man’s sanctification and happiness is inseparable from the interest of the divine glory.
“If we do not lose sight of these principles, which no Christian can question, we shall understand that our confidence in the providence of Our Father in heaven can not be too great, too absolute, too childlike. If nothing but what He permits happens, and if He can permit nothing but what is for our happiness, then we have nothing to fear, except not being sufficiently submissive to God. As long as we keep ourselves united with Him and we walk after His designs, were all creatures to turn against us they could not harm us.
“He, who relies upon God, becomes by this very reliance as powerful and as invincible as God, and created powers can no more prevail against him than God Himself. This confidence in the fatherly providence of God can not, evidently dispense us from doing all that is in our power to accomplish His designs; but, after having done all that depends on our efforts, we will abandon ourselves completely to God for the rest.—Fr. Ramiere, S.J., in Abandonment.”
”One secret of a sweet and happy Christian life is learning to live by the day. It is a blessed secret this, of living by the day. Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, till nightfall.”
Simple words of wisdom as meaningful today as they were back then.
We can carry our burden, however heavy till nightfall, and survive whatever evil throws our way when our tomorrow becomes today if we continue to pray.
We know in our hearts and souls that evil never sleeps—but when it comes to humanity, neither does God Almighty.
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