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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 44 - Tuesday, April 28, 2020

“Despite the uncertainty, He is here”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
When lock-down began a little over a month and a half ago, we all had
reason to be uncertain about the future, reason to be concerned. And we have
come through it.
We have come through it with pain because we may have lost loved ones.
As a society, even if our own family has not been affected, we know that there
are sick people who cannot be visited by their family, we know that there have
been deaths, where parents have found it difficult to be present. In this sense,
there has been a time of uncertainty, but somehow, we got through it with
faith, with prayer, with patience, with forgiveness.
And now we are at the beginning of a gradual easing of the lockdown
restrictions, a new opening, and a preparation for a return to a new “normal”
which is also a source of uncertainty. How is this going to happen? A concern
is, can it be done without threatening the health of children or elderly spouses,
whatever the generation? There is a lot of uncertainty.
So for the time being, I invite you to take another look at what you are
already doing, but also to reconsider the presence of Jesus Christ. We will try
to predict it what will happen tomorrow and we should, we will try to take
measures and we must do so. But we do not know what will really happen
tomorrow. However, we do know that Jesus Christ will be there tomorrow. As
he is with us today, he will be here tomorrow.

So the question becomes, how , with each step, can we open our heart to
Jesus Christ to receive from him the strength to be patient, to forgive, the
inner calm that allows us to move forward by discerning the decisions to make,
by seeing the actions to take, and asking for the light that guides us?
So let us learn to depend each day, on the presence of Jesus Christ, who is
with us until the end of time.

Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 55