HE IS=ALWAYS NEAR TO US

HE IS=
ALWAYS NEAR TO US


Have you ever BECOME LOST-
Disoriented=in a dark room?


Stumbling-Bumbling-waking up-
IN the middle of the night=TRYING to find your way
Trying-to find=the light switch


UNFORTUNATELY=that is the way
MANY of us=live our lives=
LOST on this path=in this-
OUR journey through life


“........so that people-
Might seek God-even perhaps-
GROPE for him and find him-


Though indeed-he is-
NOT FAR from any one of us” Acts 17:27


We LIVE in a violent world-
A world that is STRESSFUL
And confusing


A world in which-
Many of us-FEEL all stressed out


But that is
NOT the way that it is-for
MANY of us Catholics=
MANY OF US CHRISTIANS


For those of us
With a PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with God
God is=Jesus is=
ALWAYS=NEAR TO US


WALKING right beside us
On our JOURNEY through life
Just waiting=to be CALLED UPON


Yes=HE IS ALWAYS=
Right near to us


“The Lord is CLOSE
To the brokenhearted


And SAVES those
Who are CRUSHED in spirit” Psalm 34:18


“ONE who has
Unreliable friends-
Soon comes to ruin


But there is a FRIEND
Who sticks closer
Than a brother” Proverbs 18:24


And that friend=is GOD
That friend is Jesus
ALWAYS=walking right beside us


With those who have that PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
With God and Jesus


God-JESUS-
Are ALWAYS near to us


“Their leader-
Will be ONE of their own


Their ruler=will ARISE
From among them


I will-BRING them near
And he will come-
CLOSE to me


For WHO is he
Who will devote himself
To be CLOSE TO ME?” Jeremiah 30:21


NONE OTHER than our dear God-
OUR dear Lord Jesus Christ -
They are ALWAYS near to us
ALONG the pathways of life


They are DEVOTED to see
We do NOT
Become LOST in the dark


God/Jesus=THEY= are always
NEAR to us


Let us REMEMBER TODAY
That we are not
Like some others
In today's world


For we have ALREADY-
FOUND OURSELVES in God


“For this son of mine
Was dead-
And IS ALIVE AGAIN


He was lost=
And is found


So they BEGAN TO CELEBRATE” Luke 15:24


YES God and Jesus CELEBRATE
With us=ALL the days
Of our lives


And as Saint Paul REMINDS
Us today=
God and Jesus are with us-
EVEN IN=our darkest days


NO NEED to grope for him=OUR GOD


HE(God and Jesus)=
Are ALWAYS NEAR
In ALL of our days


IN THE LORD'S NAME,


Robert P. Wallman
5-23-17


Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Terence Hegarty