Thank you Jesus; for blessings that come through Your Body and Blood!

Thank You Jesus; for blessings that come through Your Body and Blood!

It isn’t just a once in a while occurrence when something suddenly appears and there is absolutely no secular explanation for it.  Of course the usual response from many is; “How lucky you are to find what no one could explain, or by some type of chance that there is no need to keep looking for this or that.”  

An average person, without a true understanding of God who does not deal with luck or chance, will just consider it all on pure luck.  I am sure that most people who have somehow misplaced a needed artifact or tomorrow’s speech will get on their knees and thank the Lord for St. Anthony who deals in lost objects when all of a sudden the lost item was there all the time.  

The other day as I was washing some pots in the kitchen I looked at my left hand and noticed my wedding ring was gone.  I was shocked and couldn’t understand how it was gone.  My thought was that it came off while washing the pot and it went down the drain with a load of dirty water.  Of course this was just a guess.  Because I have lost a few pounds recently and I usually remove the ring before subjecting myself for showers or having my hands in water that might loosen my ring.   That I did not do.

So two days ago I was emptying a basket of towels and tablecloths into the washing machine and heard a klink and saw my ring drop off one tablecloth before it went into the washer.  How it got inside the tablecloth of its presence is a mystery to me.  Then I thought of the kitchen sink, my washing a pot, and the possibility of the ring slipping off my finger and going into the drain.  I do know that someone replaced the location of the ring and was there to find the location of a tablecloth and drop it right before my eyes.   Luck?  A chance of being at the right place and time to find it?  Absolutely not.  

Then my memory of the Sunday I forgot my homily and as I never wrote my theme regarding  what I was to preach on.   After returning home after my homily was well accepted, and I never knew what I said, and entering my house and looking up said, “What are you doing to me?”  The voice, clear and succinct, said, “You’re always talking about faith; Today I rested yours.” 

A chance that somehow my memory shook off the cloud of forgetfulness?  Or just a bit of luck?  I know better!  

Here again is the sign that our faith must also reach the truth that the Lord is always around us and find the spiritual patience to wait on the Lord.  I believe losing my ring for a small period of time and the unbelievable opportunity for it to drop almost in my lap might just have been another segment of my faith being tested.  I will not question the series of events; just giving thanks to Christ and all the ramifications that can suddenly appear out of God’s presence.  That’s enough!  Ours is not to question what God might do with our lives, especially when there may just appear unbelievable circumstances we never understand.  Believe and trust in the grace that the Lord constantly blesses us with and share the perception of spiritually induced events that are there for us to continue in building the Kingdom of God; which is also for us.

Ralph B. Hathaway