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The following mediation by Fr. Bede Jarett was the reflection for Sunday’s reading in my devotional, “Magnificat.” It’s excerpted from the book “He Dwells in Your Soul, Encountering the Living God Within You.”
The vision has come; it cannot simply open my eyes to new things in life without thereby altering that very life itself. Not only shall I find that what seemed to me before to be evil now appears to me to be a blessing; but on that very account, what before I tried to avoid, or, having got, tried to be rid of, I shall now accept, perhaps even seek. Similarly, whereas when I was weak, now I am strong’ and increase of strength means new activities, new energy put into the old work and finding its way into works altogether new. … Once upon a time I thought happiness meant comfort; now I see that it means something quite different. My view of happiness has changed. I am therefore obliged to change also my idea as to the means and conditions whereby, and in which, happiness can be found.
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posted November 5, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Bede Jarrett put into words what has been my experience as I look back over many years of turmoil and loss. What I perceived as a tragedy at the time, was instead a path opening to joy. The key, as in Therese’s prayer to God, is perspective. When we say someone needs a change of attitude, perhaps the better word choice is perspective. Out in the rural area in which I live, you will see these paths across the fields made by cows going to pasture. They walk the same walk two or three times a day without veering outside the well-trod path. It is so easy for us be cows.
One small change, however, begets another, and another, and…..
posted November 5, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Dylan Thomas is one of my patron saints (LOL), so this is a tough one for me to swallow.
A blessing in the sense it brought me to a new sense of consciousness that may have prevented a wasted and sinful life? Quite possibly.
Happiness and joy? THAT, I’m going to have to mull over … **hard** …
posted July 4, 2011 at 5:12 am
Hello and greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Am looking for Fr, Bede who was working in Kenya until sometimes 2000 or 2001.
Greetings,
john mbuvi.
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