Just yesterday I read for the first time about how Our Blessed Mother Mary appeared to Saint Catherine Laboure. Our Blessed Mother Mary told Saint Catherine Laboure that there are graces that are available but people don't receive them because they don't ask for them.
It makes me think that people could mistakenly conclude that God has not called them to a particular vocation, because they do not have a specific grace they need to live out that vocation. Yet perhaps God is calling them to that certain vocation, but they feel unable to embrace that vocation only because they have not asked for what they need to follow that vocation.
God gives us what we ask for,* when we ask for what we need to do His will. God waits for us to ask for the right thing. God wants us to exercise our free will. God loves us so much that he respects our freedom of choice. Truly loving us, God will not force us. We see evidence of how God does not coerce us in the gentleness and the tenderness and the humility of the heart of Jesus.**
God is love.*** Love is patient.**** God patiently waits for us to decide whether we will choose to be who He made us to be. If we embrace who God has always intended us to be, we become our true selves. If we accept who God created us to be, we welcome the truth of who we are. Let us ask God for what we need to do His will, and become who God has always meant us to be. Amen.
* Matthew 7:7
** Matthew 11:29
*** 1 John 4:8,16
**** 1 Corinthians 13:4
It makes me think that people could mistakenly conclude that God has not called them to a particular vocation, because they do not have a specific grace they need to live out that vocation. Yet perhaps God is calling them to that certain vocation, but they feel unable to embrace that vocation only because they have not asked for what they need to follow that vocation.
God gives us what we ask for,* when we ask for what we need to do His will. God waits for us to ask for the right thing. God wants us to exercise our free will. God loves us so much that he respects our freedom of choice. Truly loving us, God will not force us. We see evidence of how God does not coerce us in the gentleness and the tenderness and the humility of the heart of Jesus.**
God is love.*** Love is patient.**** God patiently waits for us to decide whether we will choose to be who He made us to be. If we embrace who God has always intended us to be, we become our true selves. If we accept who God created us to be, we welcome the truth of who we are. Let us ask God for what we need to do His will, and become who God has always meant us to be. Amen.
* Matthew 7:7
** Matthew 11:29
*** 1 John 4:8,16
**** 1 Corinthians 13:4
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