In case you haven’t heard the news, I have found employment again! (Thanks be to God!) Thank you for all of your prayers and support during my job search. It is truly appreciated!
After reflecting on today’s Gospel (Mark 10:46-52) about the blind man, Bartimaeus, I couldn’t help but to think how much I have in common with him. (Honestly, I think we all do!) For me, it was going through the loss of my job. For others, it may be the loss of a loved one or any other traumatic event. But whatever the circumstance, we end up going through a process of self-discovery. We begin to have feelings of despair, hopelessness, anger, fear, abandonment, emptiness, loss of self-respect, and loss of vision.
I, myself, was going through life sitting on the side of the road begging – hoping that someone would come by and give a chance to see again. And out of desperate hope, I cried out, “Jesus, have pity on me! I need your help! I cannot do this on my own! I need you to show me the way!”
That ended up being my profession of faith! I laid it all out there: cries of hope, cries of desperation, cries to be healed, and cries to be made whole. And Jesus heard me! My cries of despair turned into tears of joy. My prayers were answered!
The power of prayer is amazing! We need to make prayer a priority in our daily lives. We need to carve out time everyday to make prayer happen. We need to realize that God is listening and hears our cries for help. Our prayers will be answered, but on God’s time, not ours. (And not always in ways that we had in mind!) Don’t be afraid to cry and shout out to Jesus. We simply cannot get by without help from above.
God, sometimes life seems complicated and messy. But what we need to do is simple: believe, trust, love, forgive and show mercy.
