Those Gentle Urgings

Today I had an urge. I had a list of errands but something told me to delay my projects and make an Adoration pit stop. I mentally fought it. I figured it could wait till another day….one less filled with self-imposed obligations. Yet, I could not deny a persistent feeling….

I decided to heed to the feeling. I made the pit stop. I felt like I needed to be there.

After my visit to the Adoration chapel, I got back on the road to my first destination. I was listening to a local radio show. They were discussing politics and issues contrary to my religious beliefs. The commentator defined herself as a ‘practicing Catholic’ but was in full support of the issues which are contrary to the Catholic teachings.

As a firm believer in the faith, the Bible and the Ten Commandments, it hurts me when ‘practicing Catholics’ in the public realm confuse their personal belief system with what the Church teaches. And it scares me because, for the uninformed (meaning Catholic or non-Catholic alike) this is very dangerous—they develop a misconstrued version of the Catholic faith.

I finished my errands and went home in a state of sadness and frustration. I’d like to think of it as ‘righteous’ anger and an almost/borderline attack of crying. That’s when I found myself spring cleaning. The activity of cleaning put me in another place….and took the focus off my frustration.

Suddenly I had an epiphany of sorts! Two thoughts:

1) When the world seems to go against the Ten Commandments and the golden calves of personal beliefs are being forged, the devil is happy. In response to the insanity of it all. if we feel personal despair and feel helpless, the devil becomes even more happier. It is times like these that we need to make reparation to God for evil everywhere. We all have free will to do good or bad. I may have little to no control over world, regional, or local events, but I have personal free will to make reparation for evil.

2) Listen to those gentle urges. I suddenly realized the Adoration pit stop was the little spiritual boost that I needed on a morally glum day. I was being urged to charge my spiritual walk much in the same way my cell phone warns me it’s time to charge the battery. Just knowing that I was directed there today for a purpose is a blanket of comfort wrapped around me.

Heed those little spiritual urges! They can provide comfort, support and spiritual clarity when you least expect it, but when you need it most.