13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Dear Friends,

Jesus tells us today, "No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God." 

When I prayed with this passage today, I felt convicted that God was communicating to me that it is important to live in the present - to not spend too much time dwelling on the past or thinking about the future. While the reality is too much for our human experience to comprehend, it is true that God Himself is eternally present. The Kingdom of God is at hand! In the many accounts of people that have met St. John Paul II in person, they all remark that he had a remarkable sense of being intensely present to you. What a gift! And truly a reflection of the way God Himself is so radically present to us.

Today, I invite you to offer your past and your future to the Lord and ask for the grace to truly be present to what's before us. Let us try to be present to situations, people and realities that are right in front of us. To the eternally present gaze of the Father!

~Amy