September 19, 2004

The other day, someone asked me: “How does it feel to come back from the dead?” Well, it doesn’t always feel as cheerful as you might think. Manys the time that my thoughts turn to eternal life that Christ promises to us if we try to do His will and to follow him. St. Paul says: “To live is Christ, but to die is a better thing.” However, there is the fact that God puts us here and that He expects us to do the job that was assigned to us before we were created. People forget that God has an assignment for them and they may not even come to a knowledge of what it was in this world. But we all are a link in a chain, a cause for some good to others.

As I prepare for classes now, and for various other duties like retreats and my television program on EWTN, beginning at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday October 24th, I’m aware that the Lord is asking things of me. That way, when I get very fatigued and tired out and my permanent injuries bother me a lot, I remember that I’m here for a purpose. Most of us, during the course of our lives, did not have serious disabilities. Therefore, we can’t complain in our old age when we get them. There are people who struggle all their lives with serious disabilities and nonetheless are cheerful followers of Christ and children of God. How much we must admire them for their patience and courage all their life. The rest of us, when we run into some disabilities must try to remember their example.

Keep before you the fact that God put you here for a purpose. Keep before you that if you try to do His will, He will accomplish that purpose, although you might not live to see it yourself. There was an old saying years ago: “God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.” How true that is and if we open ourselves to it we will find that He works His wonders through us.

God Bless, Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel
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