Word to the Wise
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - Seventh Tuesday in Ordinary Time
[Sirach 2:1-11 and Mark 9:30-37]Trust God and God will help you; trust in him, and he will direct your way.......
I was director of the Newman Center at the University of Arizona 1977-80. While I was there, a Dominican brother was assigned to our community partially for health reasons. He had severe arthritis but also his sister, a Dominican nun, was living in Tucson at the time. Bro. Paul Leahy was what we call a Cooperator Brother. He was not ordained and had worked in maintenance all of his religious life. He formed a team with my regular maintenance man and really took a lot of worries off my shoulders. His piety was simple. One time I asked him what had sustained him his many years in religious life, since Cooperator Brothers did not have an easy time of it in the "old days." His reply was: "Trust the Almighty!" I had more than one occasion to echo that in his presence and subsequently. Those words are an occasional "mantra" to me. There are times when I honestly worry if I'm going to make it through some particular challenge. It can come down to: "I don't know what to do next. It's in your hands!" The scripture today from Sirach begins with the words, "My son, when you come to serve the Lord, stand in justice and fear, prepare yourself for trials.: Well, those trials can be severe and to think that somehow it all depends on me is very tempting. But it doesn't all depend on me. I have to "trust the Almighty." It's an interesting exercise to ask ourselves whom do we really trust? Is the Almighty on the list? AMEN
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