Reading and Eating at a Diner
It was a morning of uncertainty and I found myself looking for the nearest and open cafe diner to find a moment to rest from uncertainty. And I found a Tom's Burgers and Breakfast menu and walked in and ordered a breakfast to simply sit and rest not for the meal, but to rest from being uncertain. I pull out my Magnificat and eat my biscuits and gravy and take a picture with just the right angle and sunrise through the window and the inspiration of this blogsite was delivered today on the Feast and Solemnity of the Assumption.
Scripture speaks to the heart during moments of uncertainty. It clears the days of fog and morning dew that presents a decision in the soul to clarify the intention of living. My heart becomes ordered in grace after a moment of rest in the readings of the day. What is the fortified condition that is enveloped in me as I read the dependency I have on the Eternal Word? I rested.
Today, there are so many decisions in life that interrupt what we have already set our hearts on completing as a work to be finished. Our Lord finished His Work! I want to finish and the predominant fault of not finishing is no rest.
I needed to rest and to rest is to read the Scriptures. How contemplation comes forth a moment of rest in our Lord and His Word is at the heart of deliverance from all that can confuse the mind and the intellect from the dependency of light and reason will tell you it is a dependency on water. We are reminded to drink and hydrate our bodies at least eight glasses of water a day. Scripture is necessary as water is necessary for life in our body. Our body needs rest and the Word gives us this time to rest.
I rested. For a few moments in the Magnificat, I rested. And was so demanded on to leave the time of rest to catch the bus, it was an interruption in the matter of waiting.
And then, I opened my Magnificat again as I waited at the Bus stop.
If, for instance, I had a husband who is an attorney from Yale and he shared with me the difficulties and demands of a profession that requires rest. I, as his wife must provide this time of rest for him in our home. When he comes home, he is exhausted or profoundly elevated by the good work he has done and I must be at the availing charity a moment of rest for him to exalt his work at home. How do I do this as a Bride of Christ in not seeing him at a physical dimension of natural and home? I do this when I rise before the break of dawn to offer Mass and prayers for his work and his intentions. This gives him rest. I do this when I rest in prayers offered in my writing and contemplation of the Scriptures. It will tell you the decisions I make for an allowance of rest will teach him how to rest in his work and the finality of his work. I believe this is necessary as a woman. Our Lord draws our friendship as husband and wife to a depth of Holy Living. Yes, Holy because the Word becomes our life as husband and wife. The Word is what orders our day and our work. The Word provides the friendship of Husband and Wife to be a Friendship with God. So I am at the bus stop and I am helping him remember to rest. For a few moments, a Magnificat is performing the Word at his heart and he can continue his Work as an Attorney.
