Infant-like Trust

Infant-like Trust

Sometimes we feel that our soul is in great need or tribulation or is being overcome with anxiety, and that we are in a helpless sort of state.

If our Lord says that we must have faith like children, perhaps in those moments we should become like infants, who don’t have the power to satisfy their needs and so cry out with all their strength for the providence of their mother or father.

That radical abandonment to God’s will & providence seems such a scary thing to do in the self-reliant sort of climate we live in, but I think the Saints must have found the courage to do it at some point, because they seem to place all of their cares in the Lord’s hands with great confidence

I have to imagine that truly adopting that kind of infant-like trust in our Heavenly Father and Holy Mother Church to soothe all of our spiritual aches & wounds would be a powerful transformation in our lives indeed. And hopefully with his graces we can be transformed according to his will.

Saint Isidore of Seville Doctor of the Church 560-636 Feast day: April 4 Patronage: the internet, computer users, technicians and students

Saint Isidore was born in Spain during complex political times, transitioning from the effects of the barbarous Visigoths to a Catholic culture. He received an exceptional classical education, writing the encyclopedia of knowledge, the Etymological, among others. Ordained Bishop in 599, he struggled between the life of solitude to meditate on the Word of God and the demands of ecclesiastical duties. He organized synods to discuss representational government that became the model for European nations.  St. Isidore promoted education by encouraging seminaries and schools built in every diocese. His last dying act was to give away all his possessions.

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