Living with our mortality (2)

Today I had the opportunity to share my recent struggles with a spiritual friend. I mentioned the seeming tension between the miracles of Jesus I read in the gospels lately and the reality of life now where many people are not saved from death by any 'miracle'. I was reminded that Jesus' healings were 'signs' (the gospel of John points this out frequently) to invite us to a deeper realization of who he is. They do not end there as if we want God to be a cosmic magician.

There is a place to ask God to bring healing and even to hope for such an answer - but the bottom line is to be able to accept the realities of life in this world.

As Fr Ronald Rolheiser wrote - we are to be where we are supposed to be, to do what we are to be doing - nothing more, nothing less. And thus we have lived our lives to the full.......as much as we could as human, and contingent beings. In such a way, there will be no regrets and no blaming.....there will by God's grace be a peaceful acceptance of how God wants to work, what he does and does not do......and I would add we learn to wait patiently for the Lord.......

Wait for the Lord.....be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.......(Ps 27). Amen.