Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

One of the hardest jobs a parent has is trying to get the kids to eat what's put on their plate.

Kids get fixated on one kind of food,

usually something not very nutritious.

When my kids were young, I had this brilliant idea of making them waffles from scratch and they rejected them because they wanted the frozen stuff that I think was more plastic than real food.

You know, the spiritual life is like that.

St Paul in writing to the Corinthians complains that even though he's trying to

help them mature by giving them solid food, they keep wanting

to regress by going back to their familiar milk. John of the Cross also uses the same image. God is trying to expand our

palate by giving us more and more sophisticated, complicated, and ultimately more delightful things.

So that eventually our palette will be so refined that we will not only desire but even taste the goodness of God himself in this life.

John of the Cross says, Our Lord proves and elevates the soul by first bestowing

graces that are exterior lowly and proportioned to the small capacity of our sense.

But if the person reacts well,

by taking these first morsels with moderation,

for strength and nourishment,

God will bestow a more abundant and higher quality of food.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver

us from evil.

Amen.

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