20250624-001 # God Feeds the Deflated, Frustrated, and Hopeless The biblical story [1 Kg 19:4-8] tells us that Elijah was awakened and fed by God because God does not want anyone to be afraid and remain asleep. Precisely at the time of greater darkness and weariness is when the prophet listens once again to the word of the Lord—two different times—speaking through an angel, saying: "Get up and eat." After eating the first time, Elijah goes back to sleep.  Sometimes crisis in our lives is so great and there is so much discouragement, that it is difficult to get up and walk; but God is not overcome by our weakness. God insists for the second time in feeding Elijah: "Get up and eat, because the road before you is very long, it is greater than your strength". God does not want us to feel fearful; neither does he want us to sleep. That is why he feeds the prophet, just like he feeds all of us when we feel deflated, frustrated, and hopeless. God takes what seems like the end of the road and turns it into a new horizon;  what we experience as death is transformed into the beginning of a new life. BISHOP SILVIO JOSÉ BÁEZ, O.C.D. Homily, 12 August 2018 --- #type/commonplace/daily-quote ← [[20250623-quote-ocds-const|Previous]] | [[20250624-quote-interior-castle|Next]] →