"Come away by yourselves to a
deserted place
and rest a while." Mark 6:31
This passage always resonates with me as
the perfect message
kicking off the summer as we travel to
far off places or maybe
just seek solitude in our own backyards.
It is a reminder that
we all need to slow down and reflect upon
our lives.
I often retreat to the ocean when I feel
the need to
find solitude. We all need to find that
special place where we
can be alone with our thoughts and invite
the Lord to listen
in. I like sitting on the beach, watching
the tide go out and
pondering life. The hymn “All That is
Hidden” keeps
running through my mind. The tide slowly
ebbed away and
revealed the hidden shoreline. Concealed
treasures soon
became revealed and life to me suddenly
became clear: It is
with time that all things become known.
As we begin to implement the pastoral
plan, Disciples
in Mission, there will be many things
running through our
minds. We ask ourselves what will our
parish look like down
the road? What will our Mass schedule be?
Will the changes
overwhelm me? Right now pretend you are
sitting on the
beach and watching the tide come in… we
are at high tide
now and are about to watch the tide
recede to reveal its
treasures. So too with the pastoral plan.
It will unfold, like the
tide, to reveal many treasures on the
shoreline. But as we
await the tide ebbing and the plan
unfolding I invite you to
come in and take a swim! Embrace the sea
of change, embrace
the plan!
God is tells us to be patient. He does
not want us to
be concerned with all that we don’t know
or worrying about
our futures. The Lord knows our future
and will take care of
us. When we are uncertain about what lies
ahead we can put
our trust in the Lord and know that
whatever is invisible to us
now will, in time, be revealed. By
worrying about tomorrow
we ruin the today. Life is a journey and
we must savor every
bit
of it. - God Bless, Holly Clark
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