//Heart Light Inspirations//
There is Never a Tear Drop that God doesn’t See
Minute Meditation – Perseverance in Prayer
It seems to me that nothing is ever achieved without a certain daily doggedness that comes from a conviction about what you are working for and toward. Nowhere is this more evident than in prayer, for the daily fruit of prayer is at best a vague sense of peace, but more often that not, it is merely a sense of having tried. However, from time to time there is the breakthrough of God that is worth the daily drudgery and is only possible because of the daily perseverance that preceded it. Not that you merit a breakthrough because you persevered, but a certain attitude of receptiveness and patience, of humility and longing grows imperceptibly but surely in the heart of anyone who prays regularly in season and out. And the cumulative experience of your prayer reinforces the conviction that prayer, after all, is communion with the God you cannot see, so that in the end you are secure in having “known” God.
—from the book Song of the Sparrow: New Poems and Meditations by Murray Bodo, OFM
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Minute Meditation – Blessed Be God!
How good are you, O Lord! Whether your hand lies lightly or heavily upon us, it is your goodness that moves you to touch us. And we know you by this touch, this action in our lives. Something happens that we don’t expect, and we find ourselves growing in a way we didn’t think possible or didn’t even imagine existed. And we know that you have touched us again.
— from the book Song of the Sparrow: New Poems and Meditations by Murray Bodo, OFM
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Minute Meditation – You Are Loved
The love of God. How little it is understood or believed. So many people do not believe that they are loved or loveable. And yet God sent the Son to identify with each one of us in an unbelievable act of love. Perhaps that “unbelievable” is why many can’t believe. Maybe it is incredible that we are so wonderful in God’s eyes that God would go this far to impress upon us our own worth. But if we can accept the fact of this love of God for us, we regain our self-respect and dignity and walk free as sons and daughters of God.
—from the book Song of the Sparrow: New Poems and Meditations by Murray Bodo, OFM
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