The best for someone?

[Trishie]

I have a problem with a decision about how to handle a dilemma in someone’s best interests. I seem to be a stumbling block although nothing has ever been said. Please pray for me that I can know what is best, what God wishes, and so can decide quietly what to do.

Thank you; God bless you, Trishie

God, I trust that whatever good I honestly attempt will be guided and transformed by You, regardless of my faults and failures. Let everything for which You created me, be completely fulfilled. Please love others through my life, prayer, and actions. Please worship and delight Yourself in my life.

 

[the_phoenix]

From today’s front page of the Universalis website, which contains prayers from the Liturgy of the Hours:

universalis.com/-400/today.htm

St Matthias, Apostle

He was not one of the Twelve; but after the treachery and death of Judas Iscariot, someone was needed to take his place. Two candidates were selected, and lots were drawn to see which of them should be made one of the Twelve: the choice fell on Matthias. Nothing is known for certain about his subsequent history.

Drawing lots to select a candidate for an office sounds strange to us, but it was a recognised Jewish custom: for example, the priest who was to enter the Temple sanctuary and burn incense there was not chosen by some rota but by lot. Random events, independent of any obvious natural or human cause, were seen as a direct expression of God’s will. Drawing lots was not a substitute for human decision – human beings had chosen Matthias as a candidate, human beings decided which priests were eligible on which days – but a way of putting the final choice into the hands of God.

When we attain some high or responsible position, we may be tempted to congratulate ourselves on being the best candidate for the job. We would do well to remember that we have got there because of the people we have met and the things we have found ourselves doing, and, more fundamentally, because of the gifts and talents that God has given us. These things are essentially random: like Matthias, we have been chosen by lot.

Praying for you.

~~ the phoenix

 

[MarcoPolo]

St. Ignatius of Loyola, pray with us, that Trishie receive grace that she might discern what is the will of God. Amen.

 

[pyropam]

**Father, we ask you to guide Trishie
so that your will be done.
Open our ears and hearts so that we may hear your answers.
AMEN **

 

[stove]

J†M†J
I will ask our Mother and Queen to pray for you and your intentions…

God Bless
In Jesus through Mary
Steve