Friday Of The 3rd Week Of Eastertide

God’s love and grace is all we need when we surrender to the new reality God gives us.

Down within the deep recesses, we each carry certain concepts of what we long for our lives. These include our projects, our plans, our hopes, our ideals, everything that gives us direction and meaning. They shape our daily commitments, our lives’ work and worth.

These concepts are endorsed by our cultures, our societies, blessing our efforts with acceptance and applause for achieving certain goals.

In today’s reading from Acts we learn of a focused, goal-oriented man whose life’s work was assured to be the work of God. Saul won praise and status among his peers for stamping out this new group of followers of Jesus.

Then, out of the blue, he was literally knocked off his high horse.In time, by the slow workings of the Spirit, this fanatic of Jewish righteousness grew into God’s plan for him.

He surrendered, giving his entire self to a whole new set of loyalties. The rest is history…Christianity crossed the barrier of being a Jewish sect to extend its reach to all Gentiles, to become radically all inclusive.

John explains in today’s Gospel, our fullness of life is found in our connection to the Body and Blood of Christ. This nourishment gives us life when all is bleak, dark and deadening.

God intends for us, to provide what we need. Ours is to live solely to do God’s will, God’s plan and God’s goals for us. This path is painful. It really hurts. And it demands total self-giving, total humility.

We learn the purpose of our new reality when we pray in silence, which is the language of God.

Osho