Time is moving quickly. Easter was seven weeks ago. We are now in the third week of May.
We can easily get swept up in the pace. And the tempo accelerates. Slowness can seem to be blameworthy, a mistake or a fault. iPhones train slowness out of us. And we train it out of each other. Speed seems to be a virtue that we must increase at every opportunity.
Grace slows us down. Grace provides us with a new momentum that allows us to see each other and the ordinary events of life in a new way. Grace pries open the hold we have on control. It dismantles our compulsions. Even seemingly good things can become compulsions that coerce us to double down on ego.
Grace is not something that you and I manufacture. We do not cause it. God offers us grace through the Sacraments we receive, especially in going to Mass – as we receive the Holy Eucharist. Grace resists fitting in, it resists fitting into speed, ego, or compulsion.
Grace is slow. And slow is beautiful.
God offers us superabundant grace in the Sacrament of Confession.
The schedule and the world will give us countless reasons to speed up. And when we speed up, we can easily leave God behind.
But God loves us. He will continually invite us – not force us but invite us - to allow Him to intercept us no matter how fast we go.
This week, give time to God. And see what He does with it.
God bless,
Msgr. Bransfield
