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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 40 - Friday, April 24, 2020

“God is Present”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Do you ever forget that God is present? It is easy for a human being to
forget. Sometimes we forget that God is here. And in times of hardship it is
not always obvious that He is. Sometimes we think that God is not there,
because we are enduring hardships. Sometimes we count on Him because we
are suffering and so we call upon Him. But still, I invite you not to forget that
God is present, all the time.
God is truly present in your life, in your home, where you live, in your
family. God is here. And you can know this deep inside and pray. But since we
are human beings who live with all the senses, we need to look and see.
One way to not forget that God is present is to have a prayer corner in your
home. A prayer corner that can be very modest and simple! It can be an image
of Jesus or Mary, it can be a statuette, a crucifix. It can be a candle, because
perhaps at this moment “I can’t find my crucifix”, or perhaps “I don’t have
one”. It could be a candle placed in a spot that we arrange in a special way that
makes us think of the light of the Lord. It can also be a Bible that we put on the
table and, even if we don’t open it, just seeing the Bible reminds us that God is
here, we see a sign that God is present. We see that he is with us and that he is
with us every day, that he is with us in our lives, he speaks to us in our hearts
in all situations of joy, but also of sorrow, because sometimes we forget God in
sorrow, sometimes we forget Him in joy too! Even though God is truly present.

So I invite you to give yourselves a way to never forget that God is present,
by having in your home a visible sign of God’s presence.

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