GOD MEETS US IN OUR POWERLESSNESS

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

PSALM 22:24

For he has not despised or disdained
the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
but has listened to his cry for help.


A THOUGHT TRANSFIXED ME.

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and human belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way – an honourable way – in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, “The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.”

Mans’ Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl.


PRAYER

We have no words for those who go through the devastation and for suffering of the people in Fukushima from the triple-disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and destruction of the nuclear plants. We believe that only your love will heal them and restore them in your time. Lord, be with them.