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Dear friends
I seem to work almost every day until the late evening. I am a single mother and I work all of the day and seldomly have some few hours inbetween to spend to relax a little. I have all the work of the house and all of the work of the outside of the house, my child to raise and educate in faith, love and life, to work on my spirituality and work on the finances of our home. I am not complaining, I accept these facts of my life and God’s Will for me. I was especially tired last night and I was working well into the evening in the house after my child went to her bed, doing this job and that, tidying the days mess up and preparing for the next day ahead.
I was very weary and tired as I worked and thought of how weary and tired the Blessed Virgin Mother Mary must have grown in her days after St Joseph had died and she was alone with Jesus. As I stood over the sink cleaning the last dishes of the day at almost 10pm at night and this beautiful thought was gifted to me, ‘Seek Jesus when the burden is heavy and you are tired.’ I pondered that thought for a little while and another most beautiful thought entered my mind.
I had been so stupid as to always have Jesus and Mary in seperate roles. I saw Mary working in the house and Jesus in the Carpenter’s shed, very seperate, very isolated in this way. It all came to light in this thought, they were not seperate at all. Mary would have gone out to the Carpenter’s shed and talked with Jesus, brought Him a drink and passed Him tools, held a piece of wood in place for Him whilst He nailed it. He would have asked her opinion on what He was making and He would have shown her all the marvelous things He was thinking of creating. On the other hand Jesus would not have stood by and seen His Blessed Mother struggle, He would have carried the heavy pot, fetched her water from the well, brought her a drink as she sat in the chair and carried the heavy groceries from the market. He would have given her all of the money He made from His work as a Carpenter and used it wisely for the good of the whole house. They worked together on all these small things of domestic life. I have many other beautiful thoughts on this domestic life of the Holy Family but I won’t go on and on here.
Then an even more beautiful and edifying thought came, if they worked so closely in the small things in life, then they worked even closer in the greater things in life, namely the salvation of humanity. They both set about in the hard work of the salvation of humanity and Mary followed Jesus ever closely in this from His Ministry to His Death on Calvary, through to the Pentecost and her Assumption, in this and her fiat she is redemptive to us all and with Christ Jesus is Co-redemptrix.
In the very small things of life the greater works of salvation are seen, that is it should be the same in every home as it was in the home of The Holy Family.
I thought I would just share this little meditation with you all for those who would like a read at it.
God Bless you always and much love and peace to you
Teresa
I seem to work almost every day until the late evening. I am a single mother and I work all of the day and seldomly have some few hours inbetween to spend to relax a little. I have all the work of the house and all of the work of the outside of the house, my child to raise and educate in faith, love and life, to work on my spirituality and work on the finances of our home. I am not complaining, I accept these facts of my life and God’s Will for me. I was especially tired last night and I was working well into the evening in the house after my child went to her bed, doing this job and that, tidying the days mess up and preparing for the next day ahead.
I was very weary and tired as I worked and thought of how weary and tired the Blessed Virgin Mother Mary must have grown in her days after St Joseph had died and she was alone with Jesus. As I stood over the sink cleaning the last dishes of the day at almost 10pm at night and this beautiful thought was gifted to me, ‘Seek Jesus when the burden is heavy and you are tired.’ I pondered that thought for a little while and another most beautiful thought entered my mind.
I had been so stupid as to always have Jesus and Mary in seperate roles. I saw Mary working in the house and Jesus in the Carpenter’s shed, very seperate, very isolated in this way. It all came to light in this thought, they were not seperate at all. Mary would have gone out to the Carpenter’s shed and talked with Jesus, brought Him a drink and passed Him tools, held a piece of wood in place for Him whilst He nailed it. He would have asked her opinion on what He was making and He would have shown her all the marvelous things He was thinking of creating. On the other hand Jesus would not have stood by and seen His Blessed Mother struggle, He would have carried the heavy pot, fetched her water from the well, brought her a drink as she sat in the chair and carried the heavy groceries from the market. He would have given her all of the money He made from His work as a Carpenter and used it wisely for the good of the whole house. They worked together on all these small things of domestic life. I have many other beautiful thoughts on this domestic life of the Holy Family but I won’t go on and on here.
Then an even more beautiful and edifying thought came, if they worked so closely in the small things in life, then they worked even closer in the greater things in life, namely the salvation of humanity. They both set about in the hard work of the salvation of humanity and Mary followed Jesus ever closely in this from His Ministry to His Death on Calvary, through to the Pentecost and her Assumption, in this and her fiat she is redemptive to us all and with Christ Jesus is Co-redemptrix.
In the very small things of life the greater works of salvation are seen, that is it should be the same in every home as it was in the home of The Holy Family.
I thought I would just share this little meditation with you all for those who would like a read at it.
God Bless you always and much love and peace to you
Teresa