Monday Morning with the Saints {no. 30 – St. Bernadette}

Welcome to the 30th installment of MMWS!!

The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes is this week and so I chose this beautiful line from St. Bernadette.

 

I do not love my trials.

Scorn. Scorn is a better word for how I feel about my trials.

But based on St. Bernadette’s words, the reason I scorn my trials and want out of them is that I don’t have enough love. And that I can believe.

If I loved my trials, I imagine I’d handle them with a lot more grace and a lot less self-pity. I’d see them as ladders to heaven, meant for my particular soul instead of obstacles to my personal idea of peace.

But it’s not so easy as deciding to love them. Or maybe it is and I’m just incapable of that kind of decision.

The decision is more Jesus. 

Because enduring trials is nothing unless Christ is apart of them; and inviting Jesus to bear my crosses with me infuses pain with hope and offers a glimmer of healing. I need to be with Jesus in frequent daily prayer, in adoration, in Mass, in Scripture.

I want to invite Jesus into my suffering, into my fears – even my fears of him, into my cautious hopes for a transformed heart. Then I want to trust, and watch him heal me. I pray I learn to sing St. Bernadette’s words with experienced knowledge and a joyful soul.

 

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