Healing

At Mass yesterday the responsorial psalm had the antiphon – our help is from the Lord who made heaven and earth.

We face so many difficulties in life and at no point does a celestial being sweep in and fix everything. Even so, the refrain stuck with me as true. Our help is from God, it is to God we need to turn in times of trial. And yet the rationalist in me says how is this so?

Ultimately, we are responsible for our own actions, situations and the way in which we evolve. When things go wrong, as they will, we try and fix our ‘situation’. Perhaps what we need to remember is that we need to fix what is broken within first. This is where we need to heed the antiphon. ‘Our help is from the Lord who made heaven and earth’. It is God who helps us heal within and without this help we will never be truly whole. When we have healed our inner selves then, and only then, can we really begin the work of remedying our physical and emotional situation. We may have a crack at it from a broken core, but will we ever really move forward consistently if our inside self is held together with band-aids?

How do we cooperate to heal that which is within? We pray with faith. We pray with hope. We pray with love. Oh, what peace awaits our soul when we do! And doesn’t it make sense to build that foundation first? After all a castle built on sand will never stand the test of time.