The other day as I sat in the church awaiting evening prayers as storm raged outside. The doors rattled, the windows whistled and the roof clattered. You could imagine the building lifted off the ground and destroyed, like a wood house in the face of a tornado. But the stout stone church had ridden out thousand such storms in its 900 years resolute and immovable.
In our lives we are surrounded by evil, pain and suffering, a host of moral dangers and distractions which rage around us, like the storm. We ourselves are contaminated and sick. Evil percolates into our very being, often we cannot see it, we are not aware, but it is ever present.
Only Christ protects us. Only in him is there real calm, real peace.
Like the strong stone walls of the church, providing a safe refuge against the storm, Christ shields us and protects us.
Pray for the grace to allow him shield and protect you from evil.
Pray, sit with him. In a church, on the bus, in the car, on a plane, but especially when you experience evil, Christ will be there to protect you.
Pray, sit with him. In a church, on the bus, in the car, on a plane, but especially when you experience evil, Christ will be there to protect you.
