TAKE FIVE FOR FAITH: Daily renewal for busy Catholics 11/8/2011

Tuesday, November 8

Don’t forget your glasses
Have you ever been told to “just trust in God” as you deal with a difficult situation? What—we’re supposed to buck up and take whatever comes at us and just valiantly endure? Scripture offers us a more authentic way of trusting in God. Trust means seeing with “grace-colored glasses,” allowing us to perceive how God is active in extending grace and mercy, blessing and new life even in life’s toughest moments. These glasses do not magically make the stuff of life disappear, but they help us to shift our vision so that we might transform the circumstances, both at the level of doing something to better the situation and at the level of attaching our own—not someone else’s—meaning to it. Are you ready for grace-colored glasses?

TODAY’S READINGS: Wisdom 2:23-3:9; Luke 17:7-10 (492)
“In the time of their visitation [the souls of the just] shall shine, and shall dart about as sparks through stubble.”

CONTRIBUTORS

Alice Camille, Daniel Grippo, Father Larry Janowski, O.F.M., Ann O'Connor, Joel Schorn, Patrice J. Tuohy, and Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M.

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