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Inner Peace

Fr. Dan De Los Angeles |August 18,2019
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Inner Peace

Fr. Dan De Los Angeles - August 18, 2019 - 12:15 AM

Sunday, August 18, 2019 20th Sunday Week in
Ordinary Time 1st
Reading; Jer 36:4-6,8-10 2nd Reading: Heb 12:1-4 Gospel: Luke 12:49-53
Jesus said to his disciples, “I have come to bring fire upon the earth and how I wish it were already kindled; but I have a baptism to undergo and what anguish I feel until it is over!
“Do you think that I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on, in one house five will be divided; three against two, and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE (Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life  Experience)
Over the phone a caller I didn’t know rattled off his disappointments in life as if we had known each other for years: “Father,” he said, “I cannot understand why peace is still elusive after I turned to God. I had abandoned my sinful life in His favor but it seems I am having more fears now than before.” “What fears?” I inquired. “I had more peace then,” he declared. He sounded to me like he was a man remorseful of his past, disappointed of his present and fearful of the future. When he felt silent I knew it was my turn to talk.
The expectation of better treatment from life in exchange for returning to the Lord renders one’s motives in repenting questionable. They are not looking for God but for more fun. When one leads God to believe that he has repented, and God timely acts by sending sufficient grace to perfect the process of repentance, that person is presumed to have submitted to God’s Will. He reconfigures his plan to God’s and no longer seeks the good time he used to enjoy but the fulfillment of God’s Will. The implications of such submission can be scary because after showing him the root of his problem, God leads him to discover disturbing solutions. The person can even lose the external peace he used to enjoy. But the loss is as momentary as the pangs of birth, which God allows if only to lead the repentant person to resurrection.
Those who have returned to the Lord expecting lots of fun won’t persevere. Scared to dig deep they shy away and lose forever any opportunity to soar high. One has to make a choice. He can continue the external fun and hold on to skin-deep peace, or he can return to God, allow Him to disturb him and to lead him to inner peace.
“Ahh, so it was not peace… I want this kind of peace, Father, the inner peace, I mean,” my telephone counselee interrupted.” He stopped sobbing and, before I could say anything, he put down the phone. I had my peace! – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.

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