not yet punditik

image from www.premierchristianity.com I’m reading my old journals.  And I am looking at my notes for Restless [a study guide by Jenny Allen], precisely the session on suffering.  Coincidentally I am also listening to Jeff Cavins, “When you suffer – Biblical keys to hope and understanding”.  Cavins gives a verse - Colossians 1; I rejoice in my suffering for you sake, and I fill up in my body, that which is lacking in the suffering of Christ.  And also quotes from Pope John Paul II’s February 11,1984 Salvifici Doloris [salvific meaning of suffering], paraphrasing paragraph 27 – What is lacking in the suffering of Christ.  Nothing, but that you can come to know the love of God.  He has made room in His suffering for you to participate.  The springs of divine power gush forth precisely in the midst of human weakness.  Those who share in the sufferings of Christ preserve in their own sufferings a very special particle of the infinite treasure of the world’s redemption and can share

image from Pinterest Recently as I was reflecting on where I am going, and what I am doing, I started wondering about the link between me, my purpose, the process, the path and God’s will. I think of God as Love. And me being His creation, made in His image and likeness must mean I am made for Love, to be Love.   I think of His Will, His Purpose for me, as the actualisation of that Love, and thus as I pray, may Your Will be done on earth - on me - as it is in heaven, it means that I am asking that I actualise that Love.   To reach up into His Will, to live Love, to be Love. This is my purpose. To get there I am on a path. This path is many things.     It is people and relationships, places and spaces, happenings and occurrences, sorrows and struggles, joys and hopes, within me – who is laden with personality, abilities, talents and gifts.   All done my time – which is my life.   It is individual components, coming together almost magically, working together systematically.