Thought for the Day – 27 September – Seeing God in All Things

Thought for the Day – 27 September – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971)

Seeing God in All Things

“Very often, when things are not going our way, we become restless and irritable.
We want health and instead, we are sick.
We long for success and high position and instead, God humbles our pride and allows us to fall into sin, again and again.
We wish that affairs in our immediate surroundings, would proceed according to our liking but, in fact, everything happens in an entirely different way.
What is the remedy for the tension and annoyance which we experience on these occasions?
There is only one – we must see God in all the events and circumstances of life and do His will lovingly and generously.
Faith, says St Francis de Sales, is a ray of light from Heaven, which makes us see God in all things and all things in God.

It was his great disciples, St Jane Frances de Chantal, who wrote: “To be nothing, to be much; to be small, to command; to obey one person or another; to be humiliated or forgotten; to be poor or rich; to be underworked or overworked; to be alone or to be in company; to receive spiritual consolations or to experience aridity and temptation; to be healthy or to be sick and obliged to languish for years …. to live a long time or to die soon, perhaps immediately; all must be accepted from God. Our life must be like a great Amen which harmonises with that of the heavenly choirs…”

If we see the love of God in all things, in all happenings and in all the troubles of life, nothing will upset us or cause us excessive anguish.
We know that we are in good hands and that everything is arranged for our good! Amen”

Antonio Cardinal Bacci