The Will of God

From Today's Gospel

"Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it."

From the most mundane tasks of ordinary life to the most heroic and all the courage that lies between those two extremes. From the mother at the bedside of a sick child to the soldier who risks his life in war to the martyr who steels himself for the last few moments of torture for the prize that is at the end.

Praying to know God's will and the courage to keep it. It's simple but it's not easy. The charge is direct but not always obvious. And it's almost always lonely. Some saints like St John the Baptist and the hermits embraced that loneliness because they knew it allowed to concentrate on God alone.

Our Lord fasted and prayed in the desert for 40 days. Alone. Let's use the opportunities for loneliness in our lives to discern God's will and pray for the grace to keep it.