Are you ready to be His ROCK?

Today being the feast of St. Peter and Paul I thought I might share a simple reflection with you. Last night  when reading through today's gospel with our girls I asked them why they thought that God might have chosen Peter to be His rock.  Peter had nothing to offer.  He was a simple fisherman without an education and apparently no great intelligence.  He had had no great “formation”.  Yet Jesus said to him,” You are my Rock and upon this rock I will build my church.”  So what was the rock that Jesus saw in Peter?  It was nothing but his faith in, his great love for, and his complete submission to his friend Jesus.  This was the rock on which Jesus would build His church.  On the other hand Paul was the exact opposite.  He was a man with a superior education, extremely intelligent, zealous and passionate about his religious beliefs and his love for God, passionate to the point where he was prosecuting the followers of Jesus believing them to be blasphemers of the true God.   Yet he too was chosen to be a rock.   But Jesus had to “get him off his high horse first”.  And it was only when he came down form that high horse that he understood that all that he had lost was rubbish when compared to what he had found in Jesus Christ.  So I take the opportunity to put this question to you.  Jesus calls you to be His rock.  He wants to build something on you, some part of his church.  Think about it.  What is the foundation in you that Jesus is looking for? Are you ready to be His ROCK?

Anyone out there?

You who are reading this might wonder why I chose the title “Here’s looking at you kid,” for my blog.  Many years ago I watched a movie called Casablanca.  It is a very old movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.  It is one of the greatest classical love stories of those times ever told.  But what really touched me was the way he looked into her eyes and said, “Here’s looking at you kid.”   It was not a story that could have a super happy ending.  Each of them must sacrifice what they wanted most in that situation of war and conflict. So many other lives must be considered.  And in one of the most painful scenes when he knew that he must trick her into leaving him he looks at her and says, “Here’s looking at you kid.” 

I often imagine that God my Father looks at me that way, His eyes loaded with love and compassion as I try each day to overcome the hurdles of my own personality that trip me up and cause me to fall.  It is that look that picks me up and puts the spring into my step again.  It is that look that helps me to overcome the difficulties or not to mind them at all.  It is that look that keeps the spring within me ever bubbling and gives me a zest for life and for love.  Each time I feel the look of God on me and I can hear Him saying with a smile on His face, “Well, here’s looking at you kid.” I know that I am on the right track and all’s well with my world.

So here’s looking at you kid, you who are reading this.  And May His love put the sparkle into your world.

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Just a quick one to initiate what I hope will be an ongoing communication between you and me.  I have lots of things to tell you.  And I want to know what you think too.  So log on and let´s keep in touch.  Here´s looking at you kid!