Daily Thought For October 23, 2017

The Gift of Perspective

As your perspective grows in breadth and depth, you will find yourself acquiring a keener awareness of God’s presence in your daily round of occupations. Your religious sense gradually becomes so intertwined with your natural interests and concerns, that nature and grace are seen as two hands of God embracing you and sustaining you. With perspective your passing earthly activities become steps not only toward your natural self-fulfillment in this life, but also toward your unending, all satisfying self-fulfillment with God in heaven. You will see your personal life on earth as your share in the evolution of God’s original act of creation. Whether your personal gifts and opportunities be great or small in the eyes of worldly men, you will see them as part of God’s overall plan to draw all things back to himself in due time.

The more your balanced perspective develops, so much the more will you realize why true self-development is the work of a lifetime. It is not a negative self dismembering analysis, but a positive self discovering synthesis. The treasure found in the field of which Jesus spoke, is within you. God speaks to you not only through His supernatural grace, but also through the individual nature which He fashioned into the person you are today. He would have you make an intelligent, reasonable use of the gift that is “you.”


My Daily Life Devotional (Confraternity of the Precious Blood) pp.26-27.