Your Journey with Jesus
You need some disciplines for the journey. I have found, when I am going on any long trip, it is very important to eat right, to get enough sleep, and to structure your life so that you have the energy you need to keep going. It is the same way with the journey of discipleship. What are some of the disciplines of the journey? The study of scripture and a life of prayer and meditation in a community of faith can be ways of keeping you focused, and of developing the habits you need to keep going. I think of Sunday worship as a discipline. Just getting out of bed, getting nicely dressed on Sunday and coming to church - is an important discipline.
Some modern people say that they feel God is far from them, absent from their lives. But they don't consider how often they have been absent from God. In just coming to Sunday worship, you are putting yourself in the right place to keep on the journey. Perhaps today, sitting in church, your journey is going well. But your journey will not always go well. There will be valleys, times when you wonder if you can make it. At those times, the resources that you gained here during Sunday morning worship can be invaluable, life-giving.
There is a saying that "The journey is the reward." I know that to be true and I pray that it is that way for you too. The book of Acts says that the first name given to Christians was "The Way." That's a good name. To be a disciple means to be someone who is following Jesus along the way. Pray that God will give us the grace to walk that way well.
Peace,
Fr. Munoz
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