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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 41 - Saturday, April 25, 2020

«God is Speaking to You»

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
God is speaking to us. Do you know that God speaks to us? Do you know
that God is speaking to you? He speaks in our heart through the desires, the
great desires, the beautiful desires that He puts in us. He speaks to us through
life situations, through the poor. But He also speaks to us through His Word.
The Word of God is truly the Word of God. Sacred Scripture is truly the Word
of God. It is a Scripture that has a history. But through this history, it is God
who is speaking.

You could think that it is God who has spoken through the Word of God, or
the Bible, or the Sacred Scriptures. It is God, who still speaks today. It is God
who speaks to us here today. When we open the Bible, when we look at it, when
we read a short passage, a paragraph or a chapter, it is God who, through the
Bible, through Sacred Scripture, through the inspired Word, it is God who is
speaking to me and who is speaking to us.
So, take the time each day to read a passage from the Word of God. Put your
Bible in a prayer corner, open it up, and, as a family, even if it is only a verse or
two, gather around the Bible, and read a short passage.
I am thinking of this family, that had already started doing this a while
back. Led by the parents with their children, they would read a short passage
from the Bible. And at a certain point, after a few weeks, one day the parents
forgot. And that day, their ten-year-old child said, “Aren’t we going to read the
Bible together anymore? “. Yes, parents can start something, but children can
help it grow.

Read the Word of God. Read it privately, read it together. Read the Bible as
a family.

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