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Edward_H
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How much wasted grace there is driving cars, especially at red lights.
How well we could use this time.
If we squeezed more grace out of red lights I think the world would grow more peaceful and Christianity would spread like wildfire. Certainly, if we learned how to sanctify “red lights,” our own personal world would take on a wholly different tone, more calm, more cheerfulness, more charity (the charity of God) would spill out of us, not just in traffic, but at work, at home, in our day.
How can we do this?
As we come to a halt at a red light, we can “go against the easy grain” and NOT touch our cell phone. We can offer up that little bit of “fasting from consolation” for some holy intention: for our spouse’s day, for our children’s health, for their holiness in their lifetime, for a thousand different specific or large intentions. Tiny mortifications with a holy intention. Acts of love, acts of reparation, acts of hope, acts of thanksgiving.
Fast from the phone at traffic lights. Mortify our senses a bit, and instead spend the brief time recollecting with God.
What you’ll find is less anxiety, less worry, less pressure, and more “interior recollection with God”.
Instead of getting frustrated with the loss of time owing to the red light, we can pray for others around us.
“Lord how many people at this red light have cancer? Help them more”
“Father, how many people here are worrying about their children’s health or moral life. Show Yourself a Father?”
“My Lord and My God, how many people here haven’t talked with you today, or in the last five years, please accept my little prayer here as theirs…”
10 thousand prayer ideas like this.
How well we could use this time.
If we squeezed more grace out of red lights I think the world would grow more peaceful and Christianity would spread like wildfire. Certainly, if we learned how to sanctify “red lights,” our own personal world would take on a wholly different tone, more calm, more cheerfulness, more charity (the charity of God) would spill out of us, not just in traffic, but at work, at home, in our day.
How can we do this?
As we come to a halt at a red light, we can “go against the easy grain” and NOT touch our cell phone. We can offer up that little bit of “fasting from consolation” for some holy intention: for our spouse’s day, for our children’s health, for their holiness in their lifetime, for a thousand different specific or large intentions. Tiny mortifications with a holy intention. Acts of love, acts of reparation, acts of hope, acts of thanksgiving.
Fast from the phone at traffic lights. Mortify our senses a bit, and instead spend the brief time recollecting with God.
What you’ll find is less anxiety, less worry, less pressure, and more “interior recollection with God”.
Instead of getting frustrated with the loss of time owing to the red light, we can pray for others around us.
“Lord how many people at this red light have cancer? Help them more”
“Father, how many people here are worrying about their children’s health or moral life. Show Yourself a Father?”
“My Lord and My God, how many people here haven’t talked with you today, or in the last five years, please accept my little prayer here as theirs…”
10 thousand prayer ideas like this.
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