This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the

Holy Spirit. And let's call to mind all those that we've promised to pray for. We're especially

interceding for a little five-year-old Thomas Lauer. We need a miracle for him,

and we turn to you with great confidence,

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph to pray for his healing,

but also we continue to pray for Olivia Caneli

for her full recovery.

And now we pause for a moment, and you can add your own intentions.

Now one of the most difficult things is to abandon oneself to the providence of God

because in order to be safe, we try to control everything in life.

And it's really amazing how we place a greater trust in

ourselves than in God isn't that ridiculous but we do but if there's one thing we should have

learned through 2020 it's that we can control some things but there's much much more that we

cannot control and maybe the most

important lesson to learn in life really is to abandon oneself to the providence of God. But what

does that mean exactly? Well, first it means that God the Father has a purpose and a plan for

your life, and nothing can prevent God from

accomplishing his purpose in your life except one thing. You can prevent it. If you rebel against

him, if you try to control everything and do everything yourself, leaving no room for God

to act, or if you quit in despair.

But we can avoid that by surrendering or abandoning ourselves to God, which does not mean

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