The weather has really been cooperating lately. Catherine said this morning at tailgating that it was going to be 85 on Friday. Really? The corn is going shoot out of the ground.
Mass was very moving today. To start Father David always finds an excuse to bless the whole congregation with holy water by walking through the whole space sprinkling us with droplets on our heads. I think that is one of his favorite things to do. But his homily was good too with talk of Christ buoying us up. Over the years we have used that word a lot, “buoying”.
But I hadn’t thought about buoying within my relationship with Christ although it has certainly to be there. To ask for help I have to surrender to the other. That is why I think off of the Camino we don’t usually do it or at least do it so easily.
But there we were in distress on numerous occasions. There would be some Camino angel who would appear to help and you/I would say sure, help me. But it is a thing that we balk at with Christ a lot of times. Oh, I got this. Or oh, I’m fine when we are not. But most of the time I think it is pride, oh I got this, thanks. So the help is maybe always available but our surrender is not.
Well, time to travel on. Jim and Gloria coming on Wednesday and staying to Sunday as house guests. Have some clean up to do, sort of streamline the situation and make room. It is good to have a deadline to get this worthwhile work done when we don’t seem to be able to always pull it off without.
Beautiful springtime blessings to you. Thanks. Sunny loves, Felipé.
Yup. Spring cleaning when there are guests. And you know it needed it anyway. A little pinch in the rear to get you going. I like the sprinkling of water on your heads. And the surrender thing. Isn’t that the hard part? I think it sure is worthwhile, in many ways and on many occasions. A good thing to practice. Maybe someday it will come natural. Like rowing. Or riding a bicycle.
Aho’i
Aho’i ~ you are a natural, my man. That is it with the Christian faith for me, reading and studying and church attendance are one thing but the real stuff starts happening when we internalize the material and it comes naturally from the inside. Thanks, Felipé.