KEEPING OUR COMMITMENTS
AND PROMISES TO GOD AND TO OTHERS
Have you ever made
A commitment or promise
To God
Or a commitment or PROMISE
To another human being
Maybe in a marriage-
Perhaps
Well-if you have
And you have done
Your BEST
To keep that promise
Or commitment
Your life is
A BLESSING IN ACTION
“EVERY DAY
Will I bless you........” Psalm 145:2
Well
As most of you know
I made a deathbed promise-
Commitment-or my own PERSONAL COVENANT
To God
“TO LIVE
For my family-friends-
And ALL people-
EVERYWHERE”
And you know
What happened?
WHEN I got to be
In my 30's
I PRAYED to God
To RELEASE me
From my promise
That I needed a woman
And family of my own
And the Lord said “NO”
(A promise is a promise)
“May your UNFAILING LOVE
Come to me Lord
Your salvation
According to your promise” Psalm 119:41
“My comfort
In my suffering is this
Your promise PRESERVES my life” Psalm 119:50
And a few years later
I rededicated my life
TO LOVING God
And LIVING for others
And I have
Never looked back
And my life is
At least-I HOPE
A BLESSING IN ACTION
For others
“Blessings
CROWN the head
Of the righteous” Proverbs 10:6
And I am indeed
A BLESSED human being
In this world-for oh
So many reasons
But today
We CELEBRATE
Another great man
Another great Saint-
Peter Claver
A man whose parents
WORRIED about Peter's inability
To make up his mind
About his future
Peter vacillated
About entering the Jesuits
But eventually
He was sent to-
Cartagena, Columbia
One of the principal ports
Of the sea trade
And he never looked back
And his life
Became a BLESSING IN ACTION
For others
As yours can
As mine can
IF we keep our commitments
And promises to God and to others
MAY we follow
Our example of Jesus-
Of Peter
And may they HELP US
KEEP our commitments and promises
As we turn our lives
Into BLESSINGS in action
For others
Robert P. Wallman
9-8-15 and 10-28-2026
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sister Bridget Haase, O.S.U.
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