Clearing Cobwebs. Thursday, March 27. Lent 2014.

Sometimes I feel as though my life is a mess of cobwebs.

So many.

So all over the place.

So dense.

Stuff that is tangible

and stuff that is not.

Stuff in my bedroom.

Stuff in my house.

Stuff in my mind.

Stuff in my heart.

It results in me thinking through fog,

or cobwebs, if we are going for that example.

Nothing is clear.

Nothing is that big of a deal,

but the constant cobwebs combined

are enough to make me go crazy.

Sometimes I want to take off to be a hermit.

But then I remember that human interaction is good.

But still,

there has to be a way to see clearer.

“When I go on a journey, my staff in my hand, barefoot and without any baggage, but also without any cares, I make stately progress, like a king with his court to the sound of the trumpet.”

Montfort was talking about a literal walking journey.

I think it can be applied figuratively though too.

We don’t necessarily have to give everything away

and go buy a staff

in order to have a relationship with Christ.

A staff to ensure balance.

No baggage, so our focus is Christ.

No cares, because we have cast those upon Christ.

When we clear our lives of the things that keep us from Christ,

we are able to see Christ clearly.

We begin to understand Love.

We begin to experience joy.

We want only to serve.

We want to be His hands and feet.

We won’t ever want to see through cobwebs again.

We will want to only continue to see His heart.

We will fall in love with that heart.

We will want to mirror that love.

We will truly know Christ.

We will know that we were created for so much more.

That we were created for Love and by Love.

That we were created to love.

We will understand that we are loved by the Father.

“Leave all things and you will find all things by finding Jesus.”

This Lenten blog series is based upon St. Louis de Montfort's writings. Unless otherwise noted, all the phrases in quotation marks are taken from the book Jesus Living in Mary.