+ We have two wonderful readings on this day of Lent. The first reading tells us that God is very thoughtful, deliberate and loving in every word that he speaks. His words are effective - that is, they accomplish what they say. His words are not void of meaning, for they will eventually do what they are intended to do – even though human persons may attempt to twist their meaning and cause other results to take place out of a misguided sense of "knowing better than God" how this and that situation ought to play out.
God knows us and he will take care of us – the more trustingly on our part – the more easily on his part!
In the gospel passage Jesus teaches his disciples and all of us how to pray: our prayer is not to be filled with all kinds of useless words, rationalizations and attempts at convincing God that our way of seeing things is better than his. We are to pray in a completely trusting and detached sort of way with seven sentiments: calling God our Father, blessing his name, asking that his Kingdom come entirely as he desires it to come, giving us all we need to live a balanced and peaceful life just this one day, forgiving our sins just as we forgive those who sin against us, leading us not to the test, but delivering us from all evil.
When we pray this way – we are letting God be God; we are telling him that we want to cooperate, with his help, in making his kingdom come, that we trust him to watch over us and protect us always.
This is an excellent Lenten meditation: letting God be God, letting God's will for our eternal happiness unfold just as he has already planned it, cooperating with actual graces that come our way each day in order to be grateful, humble and loving children of a tender yet o so powerful on our behalf Father!
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