You know the way for me
You know the time
Into your hands
I trustingly place mine 
Your plan is perfect 
Born of perfect love
You know the way for me
 That is enough 

January 2021

            The calendar has turned yet another page, and we have reached a new year.  Now more than ever I hear this question resounding in my head……. What does Mary want me (or us) to do? At first thought this question seems rhetorical.  Is there actually a definitive answer to this question? As I sit in our home shrine, I feel that there is in fact an answer to that very question.  Our Blessed Mother wants all of us to be close to her Son! She wants us to choose her Son, as she did so perfectly, many years ago.  She calls out with the most assuring and soothing of voices.  “Come to me and I will take you to Him.” As she holds Jesus’s hand, she extends hers to ours.  She knows exactly how to get to Him.  She knows the path like the back of her hand.  She has taken this journey so many times.  She wants to lead us directly to Him.  Mary is asking each of us to trust as she did.  To give a willful and resounding yes to the Holy Spirit.  To encounter the Lord in a very real way.  She in her very special way is the “trend-setter” when it comes to following the Lord.  She was obedient to the will of God.  She wants each of us to come to know her Son as she did.  She wants us to draw ever closer to her Son.  I pray that all of us can look to our Mother in heaven as the greatest example of love of the Lord.  In the end, Mary’s only real want of us is to experience what she truly knows is best for us!

“For God, having given her power over his only-begotten and natural Son, also gave her power over his adopted children.  Not only in what concerns their body; which would be of little account; but also, in what concerns their soul.”- St. Louis Marie de Montfort





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