Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
In today’s first reading from Jeremiah, we hear “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you. ‘Ah, Lord GOD!’ I said, ‘I know not how to speak; I am too young.’ But the LORD answered me, Say not, ‘I am too young.’ To whomever I send you, you shall go; whatever I command you, you shall speak. Have no fear before them, because I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD.”
God knew us and knew our callings before He even made us. There are times that I am afraid that I will say something wrong or mix up my words, but that’s when I trust in the Lord because he will give me the words. Even now, I pray that I am planting the seeds of faith to those who read this, but it is the Lord who will make things grow and tell me what to say.
Reflection by Br. Maximilian Burkhart, OSB
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