My sisters and brothers, today is yet a another podcast that brings us back to my yesteryears with a song called, Your Will would be done, written of course, through God’s Grace and mercy and the Inspirations of the Holy Spirit. The story behind this song tells a time of troublesome in our world. Back in those days I was attending weekly Holy Spirit Breakfast. These meetings would have guest speakers giving witness, and later we would continue with teachings from Father Bill and Sister Bernadette, and somewhere in between we had praising songs. Now this was called the Holy Spirit Breakfast because it was our inner spirits being fed and lifted with food for our minds. Although these meeting would start with coffee, tea and pastries, the real deal as we all know, were the rest of the stories and teachings. This song also brings my thoughts to how it wasn’t only the seventies and eighties that my heart would sing to Jesus or Blessed Mary, but it was all through my life. I was always somewhere either in the backyard woods, or on a small mountain, or hiking, or biking, but what ever it was that I was doing, I was usually alone and singing to the Lord His praises, or just speaking to the Lord or Blessed Mother Mary in song. I never gave much thought on what I was doing, I just did what came natural to me. Isn’t that what children do, what they naturally enjoy doing? That’s it. Plus this is where I found my Joy. It was later in my life, more like the seventies, where I would actually start singing my own songs on recording tapes so as to be able to later put them on music sheets. At that time, I had no musical instruments, so I could not add music with my singing. I do not remember if my thoughts went any further than that. I only knew that inside me I was feeling this was what I should do, and so I did.
Little by little, as I was going to these teachings, I found my ears being opened more and more, and my understanding was growing, and my eyes were also beginning to open wider, so much so that my heart was feeling the sufferings of this troublesome world we live in. I suppose if we walk around with blinders, we become deaf to the cry’s of people around us. It’s so sad how we may not see the pain of others, its like being immune to our surroundings. My friends, have you carried these burdens, or burdens like these, such as I have? We need more than ever, to bring His Gospel to the world. In a sense, to live the Gospel, not only speak the Gospel but to live the Gospel, going from Gospel to life and life to Gospel. This my friends, is what Jesus calls you and me to be. Amen.
