You know, I've been reading a lot of remarks lately from folks who don't quite understand the religion thing, the Catholic thing, or the Christian thing... These comments have made me realize I have something that is such an incredibly precious gift, something so powerful and life changing and perfectly blessed that if I think too much upon it I know I will break down in tears of gratitude and joy.
I LOVE, I mean LOOOOVE my Catholic faith. Just to sit before the Blessed Sacrament, our Lord, in Adoration is overwhelming to me. I just sob when I do this. He is there, He loves ME, All of us, and I know how far I fall short of the Glory of God and that I sin daily and yet He STILL loves me. And He calls me back to Him, to Confession and The Eucharist, and I find a peace like I have found in nothing else on earth.
I have nothing to fear. It isn't Hell that keeps me coming back. God doesn't want to send me there, in fact He would grieve horribly if I chose that path for myself. God doesn't send people to hell, they send themselves.
I want to please Him because I love Him. I do things for my mother and father, not because I fear them, but because I am so absolutely grateful and filled with love for them. And how much more so for God. Jesus gave his very life for ME. How could I NOT be just floored by that?! That is what makes me a Christian, A Catholic~ this deep abiding LOVE, not FEAR. I crave the Eucharist in my life, sometimes just Sunday isn't enough. Confession twice a year isn't enough. The more I have come to understand the graces in my life, the closer I want to be to my Church and Jesus in the Eucharist.
This doesn't all just happen, faith doesn't just fall into your lap. It is something one ASKS for. If you ASK Christ to send the Holy Spirit into your heart, to fill you with desire for Him in your life, to lead you to those who will teach you what you need to know, He will!
Jesus said to his disciples: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. (Matt 7:7-8)
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