Daily Reflection: Thursday, March 2

Thursday of the First Week of Lent

Ask and it will be given to you;

seek and you will find;

knock and the door will be opened to you.   (Mt 7:12)

 Esther in the first reading from mass today (Est C) is in desperate straights.  No one can help her.  Only God.  And so, she prays from her depths.  Her prayer was answered as she needed.   Ours are, too, as we need, though not always as we want.  That may seem like letting God off the hook, but it is actually an act of faith in the mysterious goodness of God.  To believe, even when things are not going our way, is one of the greatest witnesses we can make.  

John Frambes, ofm

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