All Saints: Now is your Time
How can your recapture the wonder of childhood?
Our Guest Blogger today is: Shelley Tegels, Director of Our Lady’s Little Learners Preschool
Be present. Sounds so simple, doesn’t it. Yet, I work in a job that requires me to be working on things that won’t happen for months. By nature, I am a planner – when the youngest of our four children was only a toddler, I had already looked ahead and knew what years I would have First Communions and Confirmations in the same year and then Confirmations and Graduations. It’s my nature to look ahead. But, apparently, even for sorry control enthusiasts such as myself, God has a plan for me. He calls me away from MY planning and draws me into what He has going for the day. In fact, as I write this, I have been called away several times 😊. I can let that irritate me, or I can see that as His invitation to be present to those with whom I am with and to be open to what He is asking of me. Perhaps those are Holy Moments, being open to what God brings to us, maybe in the form of interruptions, or simply moments we are sharing space with anyone else. Particularly moments that we aren’t necessarily with friends or co-workers. Those sneaky moments in the check-out lane or fender benders or a random question or request by someone passing by. I can’t plan those moments; I can only be open to the possibility of them. God calls us to be holy, to be saints. The Gospel this week called us to be perfect -tall orders for the likes of me. Yet, I hear God’s call. He intentionally made me and He has an intention for me, for all of us, to bring Him into the moments of our day so that He can inspire and He can work His plan. So fellow saints 😊, let us take a deep breath, know that God is with us NOW, in THIS moment. Let us revel in that love, and with that love Be Present to the moments of this day and open to His plan.