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Most of us can remember a time during a snowstorm, heavy rains with flooding or other natural disasters with being isolated and/or sequestered with family, friends or alone.  We can also all reflect on the times we have often said – “I don’t have time to do that right now”!  Well, now is a time with getting that unread book completed, an unfinished project done, writing an email of encouragement and/or mending a strained relationship with a family member or friend.  It is also a time that we can spiritually reflect on our lives with our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.  

With some of my newly acquired free time due to the Coronavirus quarantine, I am enjoying reading the diary of Saint Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska.  Saint Sister Faustina was a Polish Roman Catholic nun and mystic. Her apparitions of Jesus Christ in the 1930’s inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of “Secretary of Divine Mercy”.

In this book she states Jesus provided her three ways of spiritually exercising ourselves in mercy towards our neighbor.  The first – by our deeds!  The second – by our word!  The third – by our prayer!  During these times where we may have more time alone or without the preoccupation of going here there and everywhere, we can reflect in prayer with what Jesus said by helping our neighbor by our deeds – helping others; by our word – giving encouragement or a lending ear; and by our prayer – daily mediation and prayer for our family, friends, clergy and finally for ourselves.  May God and our Lord – Jesus Christ along with the Holy Spirit be with you and your families.  In Christ – Deacon Jim