“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word.”
– Luke 1:38

It’s sometimes difficult for us to trust people. Maybe we’ve been burned when we’ve trusted someone in the past. So, how do we go about growing in our trust of God? Well, one great way is to look to our Blessed Mother Mary and invite her to pray for us.

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For centuries, cultures across the globe had male initiation rituals that would delineate when the boys became men. But we don’t have those anymore. So what now? Because the world doesn’t need a bunch of grown boys in men’s bodies. The world needs men for others. We know that because of the fall of man we have weakened wills and dimmed intellects, so we must let God restore our understanding of masculinity.

“When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.”

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Perfect. Skinny. Put together. Good with kids. Beautiful. Smart. The world has a lot of ideas about what a woman should be, and we are constantly bombarded with images of the world’s standards for us.

It’s a bunch of lies. What we need is to restore our identity of true femininity because we have an important mission as woman. The truth of who God created us to be can change how we navigate the confusing messages of the world. God created male and female with a specific purpose in mind. When we root our sense of identity in the truth of what God intends, we find freedom to be ourselves.

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At Mass this morning Fr. Chris Martin spoke of encountering the glory of God and how the weight of His presence makes an impression on all it touches.  He asked us to reflect on who and what has happened to us that makes us who we are today.

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“The fullness of what it means to be alive is to be in conformity to the life of Jesus Christ.”

When Moses saw the burning bush that day, it could have remained a day like any other day. Sometimes bushes catch on fire. What caught Moses’ attention was that the bush on that day was burning but unconsumed.

If we wanted to be like another person, it would cost us something of ourselves. We wouldn’t be able to become like another person without a part of us dying so that we can pretend we are another person. But, when God pours the Holy Spirit into our hearts, we are set on fire but not consumed. All that is good, beautiful, unique, and unrepeatable about you doesn’t disappear. It is amplified by the glory of God.

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