God's Love Will Guard You

What difficulties are you facing today? If you want to do so, you can right now—and every day—entrust yourself and your loved ones to the Lord, and He will surely take care of you. He loves you with an unconditional Love that we can’t even imagine; it is a Love that guards and guides us, if we entrust ourselves to Him. Here is His promise of exactly that, from Scripture, which my brother shared with me the other day. It is one of the scripture verses he memorized and took comfort from while in military combat for many years. We, too, are in combat of one sort or another every day of our lives, don’t you think? No matter what you are combatting, though, God is guarding you with His unfathomable Love. Here is one of my brother’s favorite verses, and it is God’s promise to you too:

“Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God. And God's peace, which transcends all understanding, shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."

Now, I always like to leave you each week with a word from Saint Padre Pio, the famous stigmatist-priest who bore the five ever-bleeding wounds of Christ Crucified in his hands, feet, and side for fifty years:

“Let us humble ourselves deeply and confess that if God were not our breastplate and our shield, we should at once be pierced by every kind of sin. This is why we must invariably keep ourselves in God by persevering in our [prayers], so let this be our constant concern. We must continually keep alight in our hearts the fire of love and never lose courage. If some languor or spiritual weakness overtakes us, we must hasten to the foot of the Cross, immerse ourselves in the heavenly perfumes, and we shall undoubtedly be invigorated.” (Saint Padre Pio’s Letters, Volume One, page 1023)

I love you, my dear friend, and pray for the very best for you that God has! Eileen Dunn Bertanzetti