How do we know that God has a plan for us? We pray! I heard this great analogy yesterday about our relationship with God. When we go to adoration to pray directly to Jesus in the sacrament of the Eucharist, it's like going to talk with your spouse. Communication is vital in a marriage, and it is just as vital in our relationship with God. This is our most important relationship. So we must take special care to make sure that we are listening to what God has to say. Often times I find myself asking God a question and then quickly covering my ears so that I won't hear an answer I don't like. But that is the opposite of what should be done. Trusting God's plan is something that doesn't always seem natural. Listening doesn't always seem natural. This is because we are human and imperfect. We think of ourselves firstly a lot of times when we should think of God first. So when we ask God a question, we NEED to listen to his answer! If he answers in a way that doesn't seem easy or correct in our lives, we need to trust him because he knows our lives better than we do. He knows every hair on our heads. I know I don't know that about myself, so how could I know the plan for my life?
Small bit about this photo, this is a friend of mine who I traveled with in Europe earlier this year. This is a picture from Medjugorje, which is in Bosnia-Herzegovenia. Medjugorje is a place where Mary appears to some visionaries. It has not been approved by the Church yet because the visions are still happening. Mary has been appearing here for the last 25+ years. It is an amazing place. I'll talk more about it later when the topic of pilgimages comes up.
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