Thursday, January 14, 2010

What are friends for?

I read the gospel for tomorrow about 5 times and I couldn't get a handle on what to write, which is pretty unusual for me. The reason I can't think very straight tonight is because a co-worker and very good friend lost his job today. Please pray for him.

I thought if I found a picture on the theme of the gospel it would give me some ideas. I found the picture above on the 'net and it, coupled with a beer or two, immediately put two thoughts in my mind--

What are friends for, if not to risk a danger of falling through the roof or incuring the cost of repairing the same, simply to help another human being know the joy of being whole in God's presence?

And, which was greater--the cure of the paralytic or the forgiveness of his sins? What greater love can we show one another than the love of forgiveness?

Hmmm, some things are worth meditating on, don't you think?

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"I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse or absolve yourself from it.

I am giving you three ways of exercising mercy toward your neighbor:
the first — by deed, the second — by word, the third — by prayer. In these three degrees is contained the fullness of mercy, and it is an unquestionable proof of love for Me. By this means a soul glorifies and pays reverence to My mercy.

Many souls ... are often worried because they do not have the material means with which to carry out an act of mercy. Yet spiritual mercy, which requires neither permissions nor storehouses, is much more meritorious and is within the grasp of every soul.

If a soul does not exercise mercy somehow or other, it will not obtain My mercy on the day of judgment. Oh, if only souls knew how to gather eternal treasure for themselves, they would not be judged, for they would forestall My judgment with their mercy".