Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. 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.

Imagine what the Apostles experienced.

Jesus calmed the storm at sea simply by the command of his word.

He healed the sick, raised people from the dead, multiplied bread, transformed water into wine, that would be useful at a party.

And he even had power over demons.

But then everything seemed to fall apart.

He's suddenly in bitter agony in the Garden of Gosemini.

I mean, he sweats blood, he is under so much duress.

Then he's arrested and placed on trial for blasphemy and condemned to death.

Pilot has him scourged, crowned with thorns, and crucified. And then he was dead. Dead! This was not the way things

were supposed to work out.

And it caused the Apostles to lose their minds,

to lose their trust, and to do all kinds of stupid and sinful things. Peter lashed out in anger, cutting off the ear of

the high priest's servant. Judas sells Jesus just for a few bucks, and all the apostles forsook Jesus and fled.

And me, I'm no different. Things don't work the way I planned, the way I expect them. People don't

do what I expect them to do. My projects don't work the way I want them to work, my health doesn't cooperate, things

just don't work the way they're supposed to.

And it seems that everything is out of control and it

causes me to lose my mind, to lose my trust and do all kinds of stupid and sinful things.

This is not what I had planned.

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.

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