Daily Meditation - Monday 30June 2008 - NO PLACE LIKE HOME!

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Monday, June 30, 2008
Matthew 8:18-22

“There’s no place like home.” This old saying strikes a chord with all of us. We all want to have a place where we can go, shut the door, and relax.
  • Even birds and foxes build shelters for themselves and their young.
  • However, Jesus seems to be the one exception to this rule.
  • He never had a base of operations.
  • Just as in today’s Gospel, he was always on the move
  • —and perhaps that’s why he challenged these two would-be apostles.
  • He wanted them to take a closer look at the job description before they signed up!
    It wasn’t that they were insincere.
  • The scribe told Jesus eagerly, “I will follow you wherever you go” (Matthew 8:19).
  • But Jesus must have sensed he didn’t understand what that meant.
  • He might have followed him across the lake—
  • but would he follow him to Jerusalem?
  • The other young man was already a disciple, and all he wanted to do was bury his father.
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So why didn’t Jesus accept him immediately?

He was not against this man honoring his family, but he wanted to see where his heart was.
  • As these two examples show us, discipleship depends on commitment.
  • Though it doesn’t always call us to travel to the ends of the earth or sever every family tie,
  • it does require something more difficult:
  • surrendering our will.
  • We may have the best of intentions and be very sincere,
  • but we must also be willing to give up our attachments to this world’s values and comforts.
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We can’t finish our journey with Jesus if we keep one foot on the shore in case things get rough!
  • The sacrifices we make for God, however,
  • are nothing compared to the rewards we receive from him.
  • When we die to ourselves and embrace the cross,
  • we find a new home in Jesus.
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No matter what storms are raging around us, we do have a place to lay our heads. And it’s so much better than any comfort this world can offer us!
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  • Just as Jesus did during his time on earth,
  • when we are troubled or tired we can call on our Father.
  • He will always refresh and strengthen us for the road ahead.
When we’re walking with him,
there really is
“no place like home!”

“Father, your love is more than enough to sustain me.
Thank you for giving me your peace, joy, and rest
. In you alone I find
fullness of life!”
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Mini_gerbel said:
Im under 18 with no job. but thx! Keep on posting 👍
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Saying a prayer for you to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Joseph The Worker right now (I have live online webcam Eucharistic Adoration here) that he will pray to The Sacred Heart for a job for you…this must be terribly hard and a real cross! Most of “Word Among Us” articles are available online on the link I gave, just a few more articles in the booklet itself.
I truly admire you that you are undergoing difficulty in your life and yet persevering. Saints are made of stuff like that!..and dont laugh because if you are laughing, that attests to one of the prime and ‘common denominator’ virtues of all our saints: humility.
I will keep posting, no concerns on that score, it is an addiction and also an inability to keep a still tongue and mind.:o

Blessings and regards…Barb:)
PS It has just occured to me…are you a student? If so, then I will pray still as stated that finances will come your way and for success in your studies.
 
BarbaraTherese said:
Saying a prayer for you to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Joseph The Worker right now (I have live online webcam Eucharistic Adoration here) that he will pray to The Sacred Heart for a job for you…this must be terribly hard and a real cross! Most of “Word Among Us” articles are available online on the link I gave, just a few more articles in the booklet itself.
I truly admire you that you are undergoing difficulty in your life and yet persevering. Saints are made of stuff like that!..and dont laugh because if you are laughing, that attests to one of the prime and ‘common denominator’ virtues of all our saints: humility.
I will keep posting, no concerns on that score, it is an addiction and also an inability to keep a still tongue and mind.:o

Blessings and regards…Barb:)
PS It has just occured to me…are you a student? If so, then I will pray still as stated that finances will come your way and for success in your studies.
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umm… excues me 🙂 im a child still, I dont think I want a job. Lol 😃

to many teens want to grow up fast. I want to be babied for ever!
Its not really a cross. Its more over a pillow I sleep on that I have no job. I just play video games all day. yay. so please dont pray for a job for me 😦 I like being lazy.

I am a student. Thank you for praying for me 🙂
 
Mini_gerbel said:
umm… excues me 🙂 im a child still, I dont think I want a job. Lol 😃

to many teens want to grow up fast. I want to be babied for ever!
Its not really a cross. Its more over a pillow I sleep on that I have no job. I just play video games all day. yay. so please dont pray for a job for me 😦 I like being lazy.

I am a student. Thank you for praying for me 🙂
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Mmmmm…at a ripe old almost 63yrs with plenty of experience “tucked under the belt” - some claim it is ‘wisdom of age’, I shall pray that you overcome being ‘lazy’ and discover to your stunned amazement the wondrous things life has to offer and especially for the young! We oldies keep on saying “if only I knew then what I know now”👍 and forty years from now, remember that I said it and told you you would be saying it in forty years time too…of course nowadays we have become totally conditioned (happily so for a our consumer society and market economy … the dollar makers) to those things in life that cost money to contribute to happiness humanly. And so we keep on coming back to that ‘evil’ $ factor and most often we have to work to get the $ to purchase what nowadays costs money to keep us amused.
Over and above all that …ummm…errrr…‘wisdom’ - the most important thing in life is to be able to find what IS going to contribute to a feeling of joi de vie (my spelling is probably as lousy as my French!..and ‘wisdom’)…and having found it, don’t let anyone tell you it is a waste of time and useless! And more ‘so called wisdom’ from another one of those oldies!
It seems to me that if you can find the meditation and the topic of this thread worth reading, then you are not far off whatever and wherever ‘the mark’ maybe, which of course differs with each person…even though we try to keep forcing others to ‘toe our own mark’ which of course is really seeking affirmation and strokes for oneself at the expense of the other…phewwww … I had to type really quickly before I lost the thought!
Probably your studies leave little time for anything else and ask something that will relax the mind like just playing video games…what are you studying?
Regards and God’s Blessings…Barb:)

PS The first step in humility (these are my concepts) is self knowledge, the second I think is filial fear and knowledge of The Lord…and more oldie type wisdom.😉
Your signature tells me a lot too!
 
Im not studying anything! Wohoo! But I do have to read a 800 page book of 15 chapters. A chapter a day baby.

This might sound crazy. But I actually kindve understood what you were saying about missing the mark and stuff.

but I was confused on most of the rest.
Thx for complementing me too 😃 thats just nice to hear from people. I try not to seek it out ya know. but its still really cool to hear it.

Here is one example of confusion.

I hear I should have a job but I shouldnt let money be my goal!?!?

hehe I thought that was sortive the point of a job.

Notice Job not career. 🙂
 
Barbara Therese

Thanks so much for posting these daily meditations. They are very inspirational.

I work in an admin environment and it’s always great to pop in here and read them.

Thanks again and keep them up.

Katie
 
Quoting Mini Gerbel:
Im not studying anything! Wohoo! But I do have to read a 800 page book of 15 chapters. A chapter a day baby.
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stud·y *1.**application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study. *
This might sound crazy. But I actually kindve understood what you were saying about missing the mark and stuff.

but I was confused on most of the rest.
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Well being a person of most often far too many words, I have achieved something for sure if in all the garble, I have got even one point across. Did you know that “sin” actually means “to miss the mark”?😉
Thx for complementing me too 😃 thats just nice to hear from people. I try not to seek it out ya know. but its still really cool to hear it.
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We are created social beings. I too am a “loner” but now and then I strike up a real rapport (good conversation) with someone and I understand that we are indeed social beings from the good feelings I get from talking with that particular person. But in the main, I prefer to be Alone and to “travel” this life Alone.
Here is one example of confusion.

I hear I should have a job but I shouldnt let money be my goal!?!?

hehe I thought that was sortive the point of a job.

Notice Job not career. 🙂
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The thing about money and the mightly dollar is that it can increase our options, and our options for doing good in this world ideally. The thing about having a job or career (to whichever one may be called and the first indication of “call” is attraction) is also that it brings one satisfaction ideally - the satisfaction we get from “achieving”. St. Paul said (lol!) that if a person refuses to work, then don’t feed them or give them shelter…:hmmm: …just as well you are not my son, huh?..:rotfl:

God keep you, MG…you are young yet and when I was 18, I was young too …and yer just can’t put an old head on young shoulders - you have much to learn yet and much growing to do…

God bless and regards… and keeping you in prayer …Barb:thumbsup:
 
WILKM said:
Barbara Therese

Thanks so much for posting these daily meditations. They are very inspirational.

I work in an admin environment and it’s always great to pop in here and read them.

Thanks again and keep them up.

Katie
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Hi Katie…thank you very much for the kind words.👍 It does help to know that others are profiting! Rest assured that as long as this computer is operational and behaving…and that all is ok with me here…I will continue to post the meditations daily. And as things are at this point, if my computer does go down or if something takes me away from it, as soon as things are ‘rightways’ again, I will take up the daily postings again - I always try to advise if I know I wont be able to post daily and to advise when I should be able to take things up again. At this point and over a period, I have been able to factor into my day sufficient time to answer posts and to complete daily postings, including the meditation.
Deo Gratius.

God’s blessings and my regards…Barb:)
 
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