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"The song that never ends" by Tami Urcia (CatholicMom.com) Image credit: Pixabay.com (2018), CC0/PD[/caption] Do you ever feel like certain aspects of your life are like the song that never ends? Never-ending diapers, never-ending cooking, washing, drying, never-ending home improvement projects. … Drywall, mud, sand, paint. Drywall, mud, sand, paint. It just goes on and on and on. At times I think I’m going to drop from sheer exhaustion and other times I think I would be bored out of my mind if I didn’t have anything to do. I wonder if the first disciples felt the same way. After Jesus rose from the dead and they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they were told to go out to all the world and spread the Good News. Now that is quite the task! My diaper changes and drywall projects are like a drop in the bucket compared to going out to the WHOLE world! Yet that is what we are called to do. Be a good example, live a holy life, teach our children, be a light to those around us… Paul invites us in the Book of Timothy to “set an example for those who believe, in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity. [A]ttend to reading, exhortation, and teaching.” That’s a pretty tall order! But Jesus never promised that following Him would be easy. Perhaps the Pharisee who invited Jesus to dine with him thought the sinful woman who interrupted their dinner was like the song that never ends. Surely he rolled his eyes at her repentance, because he knew “what sort of woman” she was. “She’ll just keep sinning over and over again,” he thought to himself. “She’ll never change.” The Pharisee had no clue who he was dealing with, who Jesus truly was and how powerful His love is in the changing of hearts. I am often guilty of the same. I feel like I’m stuck in a rut in both my everyday life and in my spiritual life, and I am so tempted to believe that things will never change. Yet the life of a Christian is all about transformation. We should not stop learning, changing, and growing in our walk with the Lord. But above all, we should not allow ourselves to fall into despair and believe the lie that we CAN’T change. Because the One who changes us is our all-powerful God. May the song that never ends, the one we sing to ourselves in our minds over and over again, be the one that tells how great the love of our God is, so that one of these days, we might truly believe it.
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