Sometimes, of course, I wonder what it would have been like to have my own family. Would I have been a good husband and a decent father? Could I have loved enough or would I have made a mess of things.
If I preach a lousy sermon on a poarticular Sunday, the following week I can do better. You can’t do that with kids, throw one away because you didn’t make it right.
My present vocation is the right thing for me. I still feel the fire.The presence of Jesus in my life still shakes me up. His message still moves my heart.
Today I am thinking about when Jesus announced: “I have come to bring a fire upon the earth and I am anxious to see the fire kindled.”
Another translation has the text like this: “I HAVE COME TO THROW FIRE UPON THE EARTH.” I’d like to throw some of that fire around and get resurrecting life moving among the people serve. It’s that same fire which appeared over the heads of the apostles at Pentecost. It is the Risen Jesus who sends His Spirit to us to remake our lives, to remake this earth..
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful people and enkindle within them the fire of your divine love.
THE REFINER’S FIRE -MALACHI 3:1