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"What do you want me to do for you?" This is the question Jesus asks Bartimaeus and all of us this week. Do we try to convince the Lord that He should bless us? No! This week, go to prayer with perfect confidence and trust that when we ask Him for something that is for our good, He will happily grant it to us and pour His blessings upon us.
The Gospel is a team sport! What team are you playing on and who's on your team? It's important that we surround ourselves with God-given friends, "teammates", that, with us, are bold and ambitious, not for power, but service.
Behold and be held in Jesus' gaze of love this week. When you go to the Blessed Sacrament this week, striving to look at Jesus and be looked at by Him, recognize and identify those distractions, those pieces of wealth, that keep you from keeping you from looking at Jesus like it did for the rich young man in the Gospel and that keep you away from the loving gaze of the Father.
If you're married, think this week how you can be more readily, more generously, more patiently receive the faults and failings of your spouse, so that you can more deeply love your spouse like Christ loves the Church.
If not married, you can still apply this to your other relationships, making sure that through the faults and failings of your neighbor, you still love them as Love Himself loves.
What are those things, those mortal or venial sins, that prevent us from relationship with Jesus?
Seek those opportunities in our life where we can be "in the midst of them" in intentional service. How can we be generous to those around us at home, school or work with our possessions, money and even our time?
This week, when you encounter your daily challenges and struggles, ask yourself, "Am I seeing this through my eyes, or from the eyes of my Lord Jesus?"
This week, ask the Lord for the courage to speak his words in this broken world and do his will and the grace to listen to Him as he instructs us.
Reflect on how you are called to live God's commandments in your life. Are you merely completing them on the surface, or do you live them out from the heart?
Jesus alone has the words of everlasting life. Can you pray for the grace to lean in and trust him?
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