Just Enough Light

Just Enough Light

Sometimes only the step I’m on, or the very next one ahead, is all that illuminated for me.

God gives just the amount of light I need for the exact moment I need it.

At those times I walk in surrender to faith, unable to see the future and not fully comprehending the past.

And because it is God who has given me what light I have, I know I must reject the fear and doubt that threaten to overtake me.

I must determine to be content where I am, and allow God to get me where I need to go.

I walk forward, one step at a time, fully trusting that the light God shed is absolutely sufficient.

God has given me just enough light to see where I am to go next. In what direction I am to go into. It’s not the brightest light at times, sometimes its just a dim candle light but I am still following it because I trust God and what he has planned for me. Sometimes I am unsure as to where I am going in life. But I have to keep reminding myself that God wouldn’t lead me somewhere where I wasn’t meant to end up. Just like how he led me to Kensington and to La Salle Academy.

I am currently in the process of applying to Graduate schools for my Masters in Social Work. God has been shining a light down that path for while and I need to follow it and trust him and what he has planned for me.

God please show me the way. Guide me through this next chapter of my life. Show me where I am supposed to go and I will follow you. I trust that you will show me something wonderful and beautiful and will give me more experiences that I will cherish for the rest of my life.  Amen

peace and love

Katie

The change in leaves, the change in my life

It's been a while since I have posted anything and I apologize. Life has been a little crazy lately but I am currently on fall retreat in Cape May and have time to catch up on some blog posts. Enjoy :)

Prayer for Autumn Days

Sr. Joyce Rupp, OSM

God of the seasons, 
there is a time for everything; 
there is a time for dying and a time for rising. 
We need courage to enter into 
the transformation process.

God of autumn, 
the trees are saying goodbye to their green, 
letting go of what has been. 
We, too, have our moments of surrender, 
with all their insecurity and risk. 
Help us to let go when we need to do so.

God of fallen leaves 
lying in colored patterns on the ground, 
our lives have their own patterns. 
As we see the patterns of our own growth, 
may we learn from them.

God of misty days and harvest moon nights, 
there is always the dimension of mystery 
and wonder in our lives. 
We always need to recognize your power-filled presence. 
May we gain strength from this.

God of harvest wagons and fields of ripened grain, 
many gifts of growth lie within the season of our surrender. 
We must wait for harvest in faith and hope. 
Grant us patience when we do not see the blessings.

God of geese going south 
for another season, your wisdom enables us 
to know what needs to be left behind 
and what needs to be carried into the future. 
We yearn for insight and vision.

God of flowers 
touched with frost and windows wearing white designs, 
may your love keep our hearts 
from growing cold in the empty seasons.

God of life, 
you believe in us, you enrich us, 
you entrust us with the freedom to choose life. 
For all this, we are grateful. 
Amen

I do believe that since I have started this journey that I have changed, just like the leaves outside have. I have finished one chapter of my life and I have moved on to the next. We have talked about letting go of things and I don’t like to think I am letting go of my past. I like to think of my life as a book and I have moved onto the next chapter. Your past makes you who you are today so we shouldn’t get rid of it but rather learn from it and allow us to look back to that part of our lives in order to help us with our future. I feel as though I have gone against the pattern of life that most young adults have chosen to take after they graduate from college, which is either getting a full time job or going to graduate school. I have chosen to spend a year of my life serving others.

I have chosen to spend a year of my life living and working in the neighborhood of Kensington. I have the freedom to do this with my life. To spend a year serving others. How amazing is it that we have the freedom to choose what we want to do with our lives and in what direction we go in. I thank God for that blessing because I have chosen to do something with my life tat I may have never been able to do if I didn’t have that freedom.

Peace and love

Katie