This morning, I can barely wrap my mind around the words of St. JoseMaria Escriva. He pictures himself as a little bird fluttering, short little distances, and slowly making it to a tree, then a house, until one day an Eagle mistakes him for one of his own and scoops him up and he soars higher and higher, then the Eagle lets him go and says FLY!! St JoseMaria asks our Lord that He never allow him to be okay with fluttering close to the ground again.
It is so easy to keep your mind busy with the things on the ground, allowing what appears in front of our eyes to disguise what all things in life are... An opportunity, every diaper, meal prepared, and mess made to be cleaned, is a chance to soar with the eagles, to sanctify our lives! If we roll our eyes at the cereal on the floor and in frustration clean it AGAIN, or grit our teeth at our husband when he isn't a prince charming here and there, we miss out on a beautiful moment to SOAR, to put a smile on our face and Tell our Lord thank you! We get a chance to serve Him, in his creations, who have been given to us- to love. May I never forget that I live in the presence of God in a real way, All Day Long. Right now! "what peace is ours once we have embarked upon ‘the narrow road that leads on to life’!"
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