From chaos be born the stars

"The earth was nothing but chaos and emptiness: there was darkness on the surface of the abyss, and the spirit of God was moving above the waters. God said, Let there be light ! And the light was. "Genesis 1: 2-3

Most of the poignant songs we love have been written by authors experiencing times of darkness and intense suffering. From these painful events are born the words of powerful canticles like "In your hands I give up", "As I am without anything to me", "Grace infinite", etc.

The test, the chaos, readjust the values ​​of a person.

Jesus Himself endured a time of agony until sweating lumps of blood. He lived in times of deep sadness and anguish at Gethsemane, the name meaning "the oil press". It was in this place, pressed by the ordeal, and the call of the cross rising on the horizon, that he took the full decision to accomplish not his will but his father's. In the night, alone in its chaos, the birth of light took its place to spring upon all men.

Do you feel at Gethsemane, as in a winepress? You agonize while your friends sleep quietly ... The Lord expects from you a total abandonment of your will for his. From your present chaos may arise a divine light, a resurrection, a new song. And if your present abyss was not an end but the beginning of a new beginning.

The test, the chaos, readjust the values ​​of a person. At one stroke, everything that is light has no place. We do not content ourselves with false pretenses, artifices or powder in our eyes. Darkness puts us face to face with ourselves and with God. It is precisely in this period of chaos that the stars are born.

Abandon yourself totally in the hands of God and hear his powerful voice declare on your life : "Let there be light ...".

A prayer for today

Lord, I come to you as I am with my chaos so that your light may spring forth in my life, amen.

Patrice Martorano

Source (The Thought of the Day)