A teenager named Alex always saw his father as just a regular dad who worked long hours at an office job. One day, Alex's class takes a field trip to the local hospital. As they tour the facility, Alex notices people keep stopping to greet his father respectfully. Nurses and doctors approach him for advice, and even the hospital director comes to shake his hand.
Confused, Alex asks a nearby nurse about his father. She looks surprised and says, "You don't know? Your dad is Dr. James Thompson, the chief of surgery here. He pioneered a groundbreaking heart surgery technique that's saved thousands of lives worldwide. He's a hero in the medical community."
Alex is stunned. He had no idea his father was such an accomplished and respected figure. At home that evening, Alex sees his dad in a new light, realizing that the long hours away weren't just office work, but time spent saving lives and advancing medical science[2][4]. This discovery gives Alex a newfound appreciation for his father's dedication and impact on society.
REDISCOVER WHO GOD IS FOR ME: A LOVING FATHER;
—Maldita Nerea: INEVITABLE:
It’s difficult to explain: I carry it inside and it makes me unstoppable;
It’s Inevitable because it’s born and lives inside me;
It’s Inevitable because you make me live and because you are here”
—EXAMPLE IN THE GOSPEL:
the hand of the Lord was with him
(old and barren mother; his dad was unable to speak, then he spoke and said the Benedictus)
Our deepest reality:
“Do not forget: anyone who does realize that he is a child of God is aware of the deepest truth about himself."
1 therefore: the freedom of the children of God;
What's the best thing I can do with my freedom?
(To do his will out of love not focusing on the reward)
"To be children of God: that is our dignity! From this springs our freedom and the joy with which we go through life. We are not slaves, but children!"
Upright intention: "Rectitude of intention consists in seeking 'only and in all things' the glory of God."
2 therefore: courage, superiority complex;
“With God's grace, you have to tackle and carry out the impossible because anybody can do what is possible."
3 therefore peace;
"My Lord and my God: into your hands I abandon the past and the present and the future, what is small and what is great, what amounts to a little and what amounts to a lot, things temporal and things eternal. Amen.
EVERYTHING IS PART OF GOD’S PLAN.
DIVINE PROVIDENCE.
4 therefore: hope;
"Put all your hope in Jesus. You yourself have nothing, are worth nothing, can do nothing. He will act, if only you abandon yourself in him."
(The kicker of the kansas city chiefs quoted this one on his instagram account)
5 therefore: joy;
"We are the children of God, bearers of the only flame that can light up the paths of the earth for souls, of the only brightness which can never be darkened, dimmed or overshadowed."
"...We have to burn with the fire of Christ, we have to be ablaze with the light of Christ, and we have to set the world on fire with that light."
—You can cultivate awareness of their divine filiation:
1. Engage in daily prayer and contemplation at least for 1 minute;
2. Sanctify ordinary work and daily activities: give them to the Lord as a child;
3. Maintain a "supernatural outlook": the human reaction and then the supernatural one;
4. You need to gaz up: Mass and Confession;
5. Cultivate childlike trust and simplicity in relating to God as a loving Father; speak to the Lord with simplicity in your heart;
6. See Christ in others and treat them like brothers;
7. Accept life's challenges as ways to grow in one's identity as God's beloved child: see the opportunity, not the reason to complain;
8. Read a book on divine filiation in your spiritual reading;
9. Make a resolution to see always the glass of water half full;
10. Laugh!
—our lady: behold the handmaid;