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Welcome to "Thoughts for Moms"
Dear Friends,
"Thoughts for Mom" is a special place to receive spiritual
sustenance related to the vocation of motherhood. Here I will post
various reflections — from popes, saints, and Catholic writers,
to my thoughts and yours — to help us better live our mission
as Moms, and to help us give our vocation the depth of meaning God
intended it to have.
Once
more, you and I both have something to share, so please join me
in adding meditations and personal insights in the comments section
under each post, or contacting me at holly@mothersruleoflife.com
with your own reflection to add.
God Bless,
Holly Pierlot
Learning to Lean on God -The Spirit of Poverty
"What is the essence of poverty? True poverty is first and foremost an acknowledgement, a realization of who we are. We are creatures, meaning, in the Christian context, that we have been created by God and are totally dependent upon Him... We are the anawim, "the poor men of Yahweh,", the "poor men of the beatitudes." To be an anawim is to be a person who knows that he is a creature, that he depends totally upon God. It is to be a person who "leans" on God, knowing that without God he can do nothing... and which acts, therefore, always according to His Will. But to act according to God's Will, one must empty oneself of all self-centeredness, selfishness, egotism. Positively, one must have a listening heart that is free, poor, one that listens to the quiet voice of God and follows it."
Catherine Doherty in "The Gospel Without Compromise", Ave Maria Press, Indiana, 1976, pp105-106
posted by Holly at 5:40 PM
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1 Comments:
I read something the other day - probably something Catherine Doherty wrote - which compared the heart to a crib.
And I thought, what am I going to fill my crib, my heart with? Stuff? or Jesus?
There is only so much room in my heart. I can fill it with material things, or even non-material things like prestige or accomplishments or desires for pleasure or power. Or, I can fill it with meaning.
Our meaning is to become one with Christ and enter deeply into our dependence upon the Father.
Catherine here shows the connection between emptying our hearts of idolatrous things -be they possessions, achievements or self - to make myself open to a closer union with God.
We struggle so hard to do what is right. But why not act like St Therese - who would situate herself in the middle of the stairs and call out for help from her Father? She also recommended this in our prayer life - to sit down, realize our inability to do everything by ourselves, and cry out to God to help us. And since we are meant to be dependent, we can cease fearing this dependence. It is built into our nature, and we are fulfilled in needing God and acting upon this.
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