It’s a rainy day and I’m driving to work. As I turned on the radio it was set to KLOVE, a Christian radio station, one of my favorites, but as I got closer to work, it faded out so I had to decide between changing the station or putting on a CD… I decided a CD: my new favorite Jars of Clay. I fast-forwarded to my favorite song, Love Song for Savior. As it started, I noticed someone tailgating behind me, so I went to change lanes to let him pass and as I did I fell into a pothole. Thank God there was no popped tire, but as I fell in that pothole something fell into my lap: my holy card that was pinned to the ceiling of my car.
The song kept playing and was moving my heart, “Some day she’ll trust, learn how to see Him, someday He’ll call her, she will come running, fall in His arms the tears will fall down and she’ll pray I want to fall in love with you…’” I looked at the holy card (don’t worry, I was watching the road too!) and remembered the first time I got it: my parish from my home town in Taunton where I go to daily Mass. One of the times I stayed to pray afterwards a man named Jerry came up to me and gave me the card. It was from Medugorje and he said “Our Lady, Mother Mary, wants you to have this.” I read it and started to cry. I told him “You have no idea how much this means to me. I was just praying for God to help me have a relationship with Mary. I don’t know how to accept her as my spiritual mother. I don’t understand the whole theology behind it. It’s so hard.” On the front of the card it reads: “If you knew how much I love you you’d cry for joy.” On the back it has a message from her and says “Dear children, I invite you for your individual conversion. This time is for you! Without you God’s plan cannot be realized. Dear children grow day by day closer to God through prayer. I give you the Weapon Against Your Goliath. Here are Your Little Stones: 1) Prayer with the Heart: Rosary 2) Eucharist 3) Holy Bible 4) Fasting 5) Monthly Confession.
The song I was listening to in the car continually repeats “I want to fall in love with You, I want to fall in love with You….” It repeats this over and over so many times in the song. To fall in love with Christ. During my ride to work today I was thinking how can I get closer to Christ? I realize how much I am falling, I am not as close as I use to be, as I could be, as I want to be and I am definitely not as close as God wants me to be. So I thought about it and was praying God help me get close to you and that is when this card fell on my lap… ya… weird! All those things on the card are EXACTLY what I needed to hear. To grow closer to God I need to get back to prayer, reading the bible, daily Mass, and better yet, Mary is who can help me with this!
Our Mother Mary is such an amazing way to bring us closer to Christ, her Son. Have you ever realized how a mother and her child have this indescribable connection no one else has? I have been told you can only understand it if you ARE a mother. You know those times when the mother has what they call “gut instincts” when something is wrong? Or that special love where she only wants what is best that she would sacrifice anything for her little one? Mary relates to this. She is the Mother of Christ. She carried Him in her womb for 9 months. She fed Him, taught Him to walk, brought Him to the temple, and ultimately watched Him suffer and die. When we pray for her intercession, we know that she has the same will as God’s will. She wants the same for us as Christ, her Son, wants for us. She is holy and wants nothing evil. She wants to lead us to holiness so we can one day be with God and all the angels and saints. So why not ask for her intercession?
Mary, Queen of Peace,
Pray for us…
Pax Christi-
Jen
