What does it mean the fourth day?
Simply put, it is the rest of your life,
a metaphor of how each day, hour, moment,
is a new beginning for you.
Some here are fired up,
others perhaps feel nothing,
some anxious worried if they can follow through,
each unique in how they respond,
grow,
to God’s tender advances.
It is true for most,
there will be a going forward
and a moving back,
wandering off for awhile,
yet the call will always be there,
a new beginning for you,
for you are being pursued
by infinite love and mercy.
Many are praying for you,
even if you are not known personally,
you are loved and cherished,
for we are truly one in Christ,
who is closer to us than our skin,
bone,
our very faces.
Nothing you do,
nor how many times you fail
will cast you out of God’s love,
the real struggle is to simply keep getting up.
Some fall often,
a lot,
it does not matter,
however what does matter
is the not getting up,
despair is the struggle many face,
I have,
just get up,
the fourth day calls to a new beginning.
Embrace the community you are now part of,
great people,
human,
weak and fallible
yet they have your back,
pray for you,
love you,
and accept you.
Believe big not small,
open your hearts,
for no matter where life takes you,
the hills and valleys,
the joys and the sufferings,
the victories,
and failures deep,
know that the Father is already there waiting
with open arms,
running to welcome,
heal,
and forgive.
So believe big,
it will never be big enough
for God love is infinite
his compassion bottomless
his desire for you passionate.
(I wrote this for a Cursillo retreat going on at this time. While in prayer it came flowing through my mind so I wrote, don’t know if it will be used, doesn’t matter, glad that I wrote it. They call the day after the retreat the fourth day.)
Br. Mark Dohle, OCSO
Holy Spirit Monastery
