Condition for Fission

The same type of energy that makes the sun and stars burn for countless centuries is known to reside in prodigious quantities in every tiny drop of sea water. The challenge is to find a way to release that stored energy.

Every high school student learns in science class that potential energy must be converted to kinetic energy before it can produce any physical change or motion. Thus, gasoline must be combusted by a spark in the engine's piston chamber before it can move a car. Likewise, a soul must be grace-sparked before it can grow in holiness and earn merit or heavenly reward. God provides the spark "(prevenient grace"), "for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Phil 2:13). But that spark of grace can be quenched by our noncooperation before it can produce its God-intended effect.

Like the garganruan energies hidden in a drop of sea water, enormous spiritual energies lie hidden and untapped in our soul. Our resolve to cooperate with grace in the release of this Spirit's power within can bring astonishing and world-changing effects.

This excerpt is from the book One-Minute Meditations for Busy People, by John H. Hampsch, C.M.F., originally published by Servant Publications. It and other of Fr. Hampsch's books and audio/video recordings can be purchased from Claretian Teaching Ministry, 20610 Manhattan Pl, #120, Torrance, CA 90501-1863. Phone 1-310-782-6408 or www.Catholicbooks.net