Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Saturday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time
The Bruised Reed He Will Not Break
With motherly love, I will await your arrival in Heaven. The drops of oil resulting from your sufferings will fall on the earth into the lamps that are either extinguished or barely flickering in the souls, and they will ignite at my Flame of Love. You, therefore, can take your place beside me until the end of the world.” (Mary) (Diary Page 92)
Today’s Readings: The bruised reed he will not break
And the smoldering wick he will not extinguish
Until judgment is made victorious.
In his name, the Gentiles will hope. (Matthew 12)
Prayer Meditation: Lord, how many souls there are who are bruised reeds and smoldering wicks. Some beat down by life, some stuck in patterns of sin and perhaps addiction with no way out, others who just struggle with discouragement and anxiety and who feel their hope fading. We are in dark times and the light of faith in so many is barely flickering. The culture we are in and the lockdowns make it even harder to find You in the midst of the storm. But the truth is Lord, You are in our boats and in our storms (Mark 4) and You are still in control! And You long to heal us and restore the lost and not to condemn us because there is no condemnation in You (Romans 8). Lord in these times, You have asked Your little ones, Mary’s Army or those consecrated to You through Her, to offer our prayers and sacrifices to save souls. There is more grace than ever though the Flame of Love and we are literally the little lifeboats You are sending out to spread this flame in the darkness. Lord, help us reach the lost through our words, deeds, and prayers- our spiritual acts of mercy because You want only to bring them back into the fold and there will be joy in Heaven for each lost soul who returns Home! (Luke 15).
