Ever since I was in seminary, I always had a keen devotion to meditate on the infant Jesus, to think of the moments in his life when he would run to Mary, when these two hearts would be near each other in the daily course of life in Nazareth. Or to think of the beating sacred Heart of the infant Jesus, the young child assisting St. Joseph; the young God-Man as a child, whose heart beat for love of me, for love of you….

Such thoughts as these aren’t fantasy, they happened. Jesus allows us to enter into the simplicity of the life he lived when walking on this earth; to place within those moments the ordinariness of our daily life, to unite every waking breath and moment and beat of our heart to his salvific will and power.

I always remind you of this here on Crux
Stationalis – we overcomplicate the spiritual life, our prayer, our weaknesses, our desires for sin, our struggles whatever they may be. Some of us think we have to be perfect to approach God, that he won’t accept us before we can present to him a neat, little PURE package of ourselves. Others of us think our lives are so complicated and so difficult that a little sin won’t hurt us, that we have to experience sin or at least tolerate sin in order to advance in life, to live “healthier, more human” lives…

Both of those ideas are wrong, and so are other extremes… the only extreme we should be living is complete and utter abandonment to Christ, as we are! It will be in doing precisely that, in giving ourselves entirely to Jesus, that healing will be granted unto us, that virtues will grow within our soul, that merit will increase, that GLORY will be given to God now and in eternity.

Jesus, I am nothing without you. Jesus, everything is gift from you, I have no claim to any good that comes through me, through my life. All I have claim to is my sin… and even in that, if you didn’t give me breath, I’d be incapable. Everything is gift, and I desire to give myself to you. I don’t know what is going on in life, it’s beyond my ability to understand. All I know is that you desire me as I am, and that I say yes in giving myself, my weaknesses and my strengths, my struggles and my sins, all that I am, to you!