The words that came to me were: "Be flexible." So I admit that I can be stubborn at times, wanting my will to prevail. Stubbornness is something I need to leave behind.
One of the prayers of the church today is, "Prompt our actions with your inspiration, we pray O Lord, and further them with your constant help that all we do may always begin from you..."
My resolution today is to be flexible and to respond promptly to the needs I discern, to be open to the fresh and ever new blessings of the Lord and to the unexpected ways he may want me to show his love.
Just as I exercise by stretching to maintain and increase flexibility, I need to stretch spiritually, and by Holy Spirit's inspiration, to reach out to meet needs, even those that seem beyond me. Come, Holy Spirit, come.
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God gives us many opportunities to stretch, doesn't He? Each time He asks me to do something out of my comfort zone, I feel that I am being stretched and as a result becoming more flexible. When I stretch my body after doing Jazzercise, I find that slowly releasing a deep breath helps me stretch further. The same is true when God asks me to go a little further or deeper into His Love. The release of the deep breath is my prayer of faith, trust, and acceptance of His will.
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