Comments on: Saturday, 8/19/17 – As for me and my house https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-august-19-2017-as-for-me-and-my-house/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Sun, 03 Sep 2017 12:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Pat Walsh https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-august-19-2017-as-for-me-and-my-house/#comment-8286 Sun, 20 Aug 2017 13:56:15 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61104#comment-8286 Pat Walsh
August 20,2017 9:34 am
Thank you Bob for this great reflection. I needed to hear it this morning. I love the verse “As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord”. I have it in my foyer as I walk through my door. It is one of my favorite verse as many others. ” Work as if everything depended on you and Pray as if everything depends on God.” I loved this quote; as it reminded me that God is with us at all times and we are totally depended on HIM. I have been in health care for more than 15 years helping cancer patients and God has been the source of my strength. Unfortunately, this past Monday, the company I worked for has declared bankruptcy and many of us including myself have lost out job. Now more than ever I need God’s wisdom and help as I am searching for a new job. I pray He will open a new door where I can serve and glorify HIM. Psalm 150:6 “Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.”

]]> By: Gloria Zamora gloria https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-august-19-2017-as-for-me-and-my-house/#comment-8278 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:58:11 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61104#comment-8278 Thank Bob beautiful said God Bless you and your family’s

]]> By: Kristi https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-august-19-2017-as-for-me-and-my-house/#comment-8277 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:43:21 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61104#comment-8277 Thank you , Bob, for an excellent reflection on Joshua’s determined heart to follow God as a household and serve Him only. And I echo the sentiments expressed by you and others concerning praying for peace. Certainly after recent wars and national and international violence and terrorism we all see the need for love to overcome hatred and violence. But, may I be so bold as to suggest that we must do more than pray, as powerful as it is. Do we not need to reexamine our complicity in spreading violence by following the world’s response to evil which is engaging in more violence through military dominance, killing evil doers but also innocent people caught up in the violence…necessary collateral of war. Jesus talked and walked a life of non-violence in the world admonishing his disciples to ” Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you. Don’t return evil for evil, but overcome evil with good” and many more admonitions. We, as Christians, need to pray that God will show us how our nationalistic teachings and fervor have clouded our first and foremost desires to serve God above all else, by loving our neighbors, whether they be good or bad, next door or over seas. My son, also named Joshua, spent years considering these questions. And a tour in Iraq crystallized for him the necessity to follow Christ and many a Saint and put down his weapon and take on the armor of love. His conscience demanded he become a Conscientious objector upon his return. After seven years of spreading the message of non-violence, justice, and love he died from cancer that resulted from burn pits that our own military used to get rid of waste. ( illegal in the US). Thousands of soldiers have died and are still suffering from the effects. Only one devastating effect of war. But Joshua died with a peaceful heart and legacy of love. And His household changed by his decision and his legacy lives on. We CAN change the world. The last sentence in an essay he wrote on the history of non-violence in the Church before he died says this. ” Simply put, if Christians wish to lesson the spread of evil throughout.the world they need only to refrain from doing it.”
“Fear not those who can kill the body but that which can destroy the soul”. Just Imagine our world if only Christians alone determined to put away violence and chose ‘ the way of love’ here and beyond our borders. Would we not begin to see the ushering in of the Kingdom of God?
“And let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it” IPeter 3:11

]]> By: Robert " Bob" Burford https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-august-19-2017-as-for-me-and-my-house/#comment-8276 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:23:53 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61104#comment-8276 annab737@outlook.com

Loved this reflection. Now more then ever we need to keep these goals in mind. God gives everyone the spirit of a child to love and be accepting. It is incumbent that all people resist the evil of encouraging hate, racism, and bigotry through words, actions or innuendo a process that begins at home. Praying for all those injured and the souls lost in recent violence here at home and abroad. God be with us all now and forever.
Your loving wife, Anna

]]> By: Robert " Bob" Burford https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-august-19-2017-as-for-me-and-my-house/#comment-8275 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:20:25 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61104#comment-8275 El
I am praying now for those poor people, right now and in the future.
God Bless you
Bob Burford

]]> By: Frank Eagan https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-august-19-2017-as-for-me-and-my-house/#comment-8274 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 13:22:59 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61104#comment-8274 Great reflection today Bob. It reminds me that complete reliance on God is the way to the fruits of the Spirit.

]]> By: El https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-august-19-2017-as-for-me-and-my-house/#comment-8273 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:58:47 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61104#comment-8273 Thank you for this insightful reflection, Bob. I appreciate your writings. As I get ready for work this morning, I’m reminded that I need to be a light to the world, especially to my patients at the hospital. I love the quote you provided from St. Thomas Aquinas, “Work as if everything depended on you and Pray as if everything depends on God.” This is a great reminder, especially in terms of being a light to my co-workers as well. I want to be someone they can count on to get the work done. Oftentimes, I come across a very involved Burn victim with multiple injuries usually from a car accident. It overwhelms me to think of how much pain (physical and emotional) that they’re going through.
Oftentimes they are in a coma and I pray over them as I treat their injuries. I also offer to pray with patient who are willing and able. Thank you for the reminder that God is always with me and will help me in whatever I need. I’ll use this as a reminder to my patients as they go through their time of suffering, to encourage them to work hard during therapy and to give them hope that God will heal them in due time.

]]> By: Joseph https://www.acatholic.org/saturday-august-19-2017-as-for-me-and-my-house/#comment-8272 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 03:18:20 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61104#comment-8272 Lord increase our faith, Our lady of perpetual help pray for us.

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