There are two lines taken from the below that I wanted to share with you. I find them particularly meaningful. Perhaps I am taking them out of context but what these two lines hold for me is a meaning far greater than that which their inclusion in this below alludes to.
Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation: A Mystic’s Heart
Ultimate reality blooms at the heart of regular life.
The sacred is always brimming from the heart of everything.
Within the Daily Roman Missal there is a reflection on the second Luminous Mystery of the Rosary, Wedding Feast At Cana.
“Our Lady was a guest at one of those noisy country weddings attended by people from many different villages. Mary was the only one who noticed the wine was running out. Don’t these scenes from Christ’s life seem familiar to us? The greatness of God lives at the level of ordinary things. It is natural for a woman, a homemaker, to notice an oversight, to look after the little things that make life pleasant.”
To be in the presence of God, here today, here everywhere, here in my every day, ordinary life. To see God in the face of my neighbor, my family and yes, even my enemy. What a beautiful gift, an abundant grace. What a responsibility.
In 2022 Matthew Kelly released a short book entitled: holy moments. In which he outlined the concept and power of Holy Moments.
“A Holy Moment is a single moment in which you open yourself to God. You make yourself available to Him. You set aside personal preference and self-interest, and for one moment you do what you prayerfully believe God is calling you to do."
These Holy Moments, these tiny collaborations with God, are the little things that make life pleasant for all. In the reflection on the Wedding Feast at Cana, Mary’s collaboration with God, was a simple act of kindness. Sometimes such a simple act, a tiny thing is the most powerful thing that we are called to. Sometimes these tiny collaboration with God are the beginnings of something great.
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