School bus

🤔💭 A lot of times, the things I speak about or create series about for my teens wind up becoming themes for my own life to learn and go deeper with....


✝️📖 “Be still, and know that I am God.” - Psalm 46:10


🚌🛑 Last week I was rushing to pick up my son from school, and it seemed everywhere I turned had a school bus with the stop sign up this further delaying me in the traffic.


Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m always “on the Go” from place to place, with project to project, from parish to parish, and person to person... Many times, I struggle even simply accepting that there is nothing I could personally “DO” that would ever achieve my salvation; and there’s nothing in my daily activity that makes God “love me more”. In my mind I know the simple Gospel truth that “God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”(Romans 5:8), but in practice it always feels like I must do more.


From my spirit I gaze at Christ on the cross shouting “Not only you Lord, but me too.”


However lately, as God has slowed me down in this season I realize that some parts of this battle simply isn’t my fight, but HIS fight; and some pets of it for my other brothers and sisters to take care of.


So in many ways, those school buses are a sign of how much I need to stop.... How I need to be still, understand, trust, and know the nature of my Heavenly Father; simply worshipping him in this season. Amen. 🙏✝️ #SainthoodInTheCity

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