Easter Meditation

My Dearest Brothers and Sisters in Christ

Book 3 Chapter 26: On the Excellence of a Free Mind, the Reward of Humble Prayer Rather than of Reading

“Lord, it is the work of perfect persons never to let their minds slacken from the consideration of heavenly things.”

Today, Thomas a Kempis challenges us to free ourselves from our earthly treasures and desires. He wants us to give up all our luxuries because they can only burden the mind with needless worry.   We are challenged to free ourselves from the “cares of this world, so that I do not become overinvolved in them.”  He challenges us to seek our pleasures in the Lord and not in the flesh.  We must realize that the earthly treasures which are coveted by so many are not going to get us into heaven, but instead provide barriers which are difficult to cross.  We must realize that these earthly treasures only provide temporal joy followed by misery.  The reason these treasures do not satisfy us is because they are empty.  They bring no lasting happiness because they fade away.  Even the most grandest of palaces and magnificent of earthly treasures will decay and return to the earth.  Nothing on this earth is permanent except the human soul.  Therefore, we must seek our happiness in the thing that will not go away.  God has placed His love within us for eternity.  It is up to us to choose it. The carnal pleasures which surround us are used by Satan to lure us away from “the love of eternal things.”  We have to work hard and humble ourselves to avoid “letting flesh and blood and blood prevail over me.”  We must ask God for “the courage to resist, the patience to endure and the steadfastness to preserve.” Instead of the worldly comfort, we should seek the sweet anointing love of Your Holy Spirit.  We are currently on the way to finishing the Easter Season with Pentecost Sunday.  What a great day to call upon the Holy Spirit to overwhelm us and to free us from our earthly desires so we can rest purely and totally in the arms of God. 

A Simple Prayer

“Come Holy Spirit, fill the heart of your faithful

And enkindle in me the fire of your love.”

Yours in Christ

Michael Marcon