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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THANKFULNESS IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES \nFrom a sermon by St John Henry Newman6 \n◊◊◊ \nIt would be well if we were in the habit of looking at all we have as God’s \ngift\, undeservedly given\, and day by day continued to us solely by his mercy. He \ngave; He may take away. He gave us all we have\, life\, health\, strength\, reason\, \nenjoyment\, the light of conscience; whatever we have good and holy within us; \nwhatever faith we have; whatever of a renewed will; whatever love towards him; \nwhatever power over ourselves; whatever prospect of heaven. He gave us \nrelatives\, friends\, education\, training\, knowledge\, the Bible\, the Church. All \ncomes from him. He gave; he may take away. Did he take away\, we should be \ncalled on to follow Job’s pattern\, and be resigned: “The Lord gave\, and the Lord \nhas taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.” While he continues his \nblessings\, we should follow David and Jacob\, by living in constant praise and \nthanksgiving\, and in offering up to him of his own. \nWe are not our own\, any more than what we possess is our own. We did \nnot make ourselves; we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We cannot be our \nown masters. We are God’s property by creation\, by redemption\, by \nregeneration. He has a triple claim upon us. Is it not our happiness thus to view \nthe matter? Is it any happiness\, or any comfort\, to consider that we are our \nown? It may be thought so by the young and prosperous. These may think it a \ngreat thing to have everything\, as they suppose\, their own way\, — to depend on \nno one\, — to have to think of nothing out of sight\, — to be without the \nirksomeness of continual acknowledgment\, continual prayer\, continual \nreference of what they do to the will of another. But as time goes on\, they\, as all \nothers\, will find that independence was not made for man — that it is an \nunnatural state — may do for a while\, but will not carry us on safely to the end. \nNo\, we are creatures; and\, as being such\, we have two duties\, to be resigned and \nto be thankful. \nLet us then view God’s providences towards us more religiously than we \nhave hitherto done. Let us try to gain a truer view of what we are\, and where we \nare\, in his kingdom. Let us humbly and reverently attempt to trace his guiding \nhand in the years which we have hitherto lived. Let us thankfully commemorate \nthe many mercies he has vouchsafed to us in time past\, the many sins he has \nnot remembered\, the many dangers he has averted\, the many prayers he has \nanswered\, the many mistakes he has corrected\, the many warnings\, the many \nlessons\, the much light\, the abounding comfort which he has from time to time \ngiven. Let us dwell upon times and seasons\, times of trouble\, times of joy\, times \nof trial\, times of refreshment. \nHow did he cherish us as children? How did he guide us in that dangerous \ntime when the mind began to think for itself\, and the heart to open to the world! \nHow did he with his sweet discipline restrain our passions\, mortify our hopes\, \ncalm our fears\, enliven our heaviness\, sweeten our desolateness\, and strengthen \nour infirmities! How did he gently guide us towards the strait gate! How did he \nallure us along his everlasting way\, in spite of its strictness\, in spite of its \nloneliness\, in spite of the dim twilight in which it lay! He has been all things to \nus. He has been\, as he was to Abraham\, Isaac\, and Jacob\, our God\, our shield\, \nand great reward\, promising and performing\, day by day. \n  \n6 Parochial and Plain Sermons\, San Francisco: Ignatius Press\, 1987\, pp. 1003-1005.13 \n 
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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