Those who lack faith they must serve.Those who want God they must believe.
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r.r.lackney, chaplain
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"GOD'S WILL": MIRACLE? FAITH? REALITY?
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Disease, illness, sickness, and death to a chaplain are the "signs" of a deeper reality, as well as, the focus of medical treatment and research.
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Many call out to God and ask for a miracle ... that they may be restored to health.
This "gift of faith" ... the unreserved belief that all things will be made new.
We are called to not be afraid, to really believe that we can touch the divine hand that heals and that gives new life.
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The power of God conquers the impossible: "God's Will!"
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These things we call "God's Will and Miracles":
How do we explain the wonders that we wittness in light of our scientific knowledge and experience?
How do we explain circumstances that we know just cannot happen?
Do divine healings last forever?
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Thomas Merton confronted the reality of God's Will and Miracles and said:
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"If you want to know what is meant by "God's will", this is one way to get a good idea of it.
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"God's will" is certainly found in anything that is required of us in order that we may be united with one another in love.
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Everything that is demanded of me, in order that I may treat every other person effectively as a human being, "is willed for me by God under the natural law."
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I must learn to share with others their joys, their sufferings, their ideas, their needs, their desires. I must learn to do this not only in the cases of those who are of the same class, the same profession, the same race, the same nation as myself, but when those who suffer belong to other groups, even to groups that are regarded as hostile.
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If I do this, I obey God. If I refuse to do it, I disobey God. It is not therefore a matter left open to subjective caprice.”
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Life's moment to moment experiences distract us from what is really happening to us. Someone says something hurts us and we do likewise and begin to think it or begin to despair. What has happened is that we have failed to give love!
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God's will, regardless of our circumstance, is to reach out to those God has sent into our lives and to share with them the love God has shared with you.
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Maybe this is God's will? Maybe this is the source of the miracle?
r.r.lackney, chaplain
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