This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary Meditation.

I am blessed this evening to be celebrating the birthday of Sister Susan of the Apostles of the Interior Life and Troy Hinkle and Rich Henry with a whole bunch of other friends. We just finished a great meal and

conversation and dessert. Now we're going to pray the rosary together. So let's begin in the name of

the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

The devil wants us to live in the future by always thinking about it, because God is not

in the imaginary future. He lives in the real present. I found myself with this problem at

mass today. I wanted to be present to God, and then spent the whole mass thinking of what

and how to accomplish things this week.

That's the devil's strategy.

Keep us living in the future so that we never experience God in the present.

C.S. Lewis writes,

Humans live in time, but God destines them to eternity.

He therefore wants them to attend chiefly to two things,

to eternity itself and to that point of time which we call the present. For the present is the

point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment and of it only,

humans have an experience analogous

to the experience which would therefore have them

which God has of reality as a whole.

In it alone, freedom and actuality are offered them.

He would, therefore, have them continually concerned, either with eternity, which means

being concerned with him, or with the present, either meditating on their eternal union

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