A SERVANT OF GOD
Solomon was a SERVANT
Of God
Today we read about
Solomon's prayer
“........and listen
To the cry of supplication
Which I=your SERVANT
Utter before you this day” 1 King's 8:28
Today also is the
REMEMBRANCE of another
Servant of God=
Saint Bernadette Soubirous
She was responsible with OUR
MOTHER Mary=for the feast day
Today=OUR LADY OF LOURDES
I can just imagine her
Looking up to heaven
And saying “MY TRUE HOME”
Solomon and Saint Bernadette=
Two servants of God
But we too can
Be SERVANTS=a true servant
Of God
“Not so=with you
Instead=whoever wants
To be great among you
Must be your SERVANT” Matthew 20:26
“Rather he made himself
NOTHING=by taking
The very nature
Of a SERVANT=
Being made in HUMAN LIKENESS” Philippians 2:7
“I no longer
Call you SERVANTS
Because a SERVANT
Does not know
His master's business
Instead I have
Called you friends
For everything
I have learned
From my Father
I have made known to you” John 15:15
Bernadette was a
TRUE servant and FRIEND
Of God
May we FOLLOW
In her footsteps
She grew up
The OLDEST=of nine children
And she was sent
To live with relatives
Because her parents
Were destitute
She was always ILL-
Suffering from terrible asthma
Since she was a toddler
OUR BLESSED MOTHER
Appeared to her
When she was 14
And several other times
Over the course
Of two weeks
At first=her family and
No one else believed her
And she was SEVERELY PUNISHED
And she was RIDICULED
By others too
She was truly a “SERVANT”
Of God=as she
Testified=to the truth
Through it ALL
May she be OUR
SHINING EXAMPLE=as we too
Endure trials
With courage and FAITH
And become=SERVANTS OF GOD
Our LADY=please pray for us=
In the name of your SON=Jesus=and the GLORIOUS FATHER OF US ALL
Robert P. Wallman
February 10th, 2020 and 8-17-2022
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Terence Hegarty
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