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“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give
you rest.” Matthew 11:28
One of the most delightful and healthy activities in life is sleep.
This is especially the case when one is able to enter into a deep
and refreshing sleep. Upon awakening, the person who has slept
deeply feels refreshed and ready for a new day. Of course, the
opposite is also true. When sleep is difficult and restless, the
person can suffer numerous ill effects, especially when a lack of
healthy sleep becomes the norm.
The same is true in our spiritual lives. For many people,
“spiritual rest” is something foreign to them. They may say a few
prayers each week, attend Mass, or even make a holy hour. But
unless each one of us enters into a form of prayer that is deep and
transforming, we will not be able to experience the interior
spiritual rest we need.
Jesus’ invitation in today’s Gospel to “Come to me…” is an
invitation to become transformed, interiorly, as we allow Him to
relieve us of the burdens of our daily lives. Each day we often
face spiritual hardships and challenges, such as temptations,
confusions, disappointments, angers and the like. We are often
daily bombarded with the lies of the evil one, the hostility of a
growing secularized culture and an assault on our senses through
the numerous forms of media we daily digest. These and many other
things we encounter each and every day will have the effect of
wearing us down interiorly on a spiritual level. As a result, we
need the spiritual refreshment that comes only from our Lord. We
need the spiritual “sleep” that results from deep and revitalizing
prayer. And that form of prayer is only possible if we heed
Christ’s invitation to come to Him with every fiber of our being,
surrendering all that we are and all that we encounter each and
every day.
Reflect, today, upon whether you feel weary at times. Ponder,
especially, any mental or emotional weariness. Oftentimes these
forms of weariness are actually spiritual in nature and need a
spiritual remedy. Seek the remedy our Lord offers you by accepting
His invitation to come to Him, deeply in prayer, and rest in His
presence. Doing so will help to lift the heavy burdens with which
you struggle.
My loving Lord, I accept Your invitation to come to You and rest
in Your glorious presence. Draw me in, dear Lord, to Your heart
that is overflowing with grace and mercy. Draw me into Your
presence so that I may rest in You and be delivered from the many
burdens of life. Jesus, I trust in You.
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