Hey, I'm Brother Mark Mary.
Hi, I am Brother Francesco.
We are the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is a Ascension Presents.
We just heard a story about David, right?
David with the red hat, black pants, fountain, two o'clock.
You remember David? And so this is the story of what happened next.
I had that amazing experience with David.
Then I got back to the friary a couple of days later,
and I was sitting at dinner with the brothers, and I started telling the brothers about it.
And they were they were just amazed. They were like, "No way, no way!"
And then they were like, "Let's do it again!"
So we did the we did a similar thing; so basically we just we sat down, and we prayed together
for specific people, a place, a time, names, and any other details that God wanted to reveal to us.
And then we went out, and we went out to the streets.
A really busy area down by a river.
When we were out there, we ended up actually encountering a couple of people that actually matched
the details that we had gotten in prayer.
A really significant encounter that we had that night was
with an elderly woman who was sitting on the bench with her daughter, sorry, with her granddaughter.
She was just sitting there, and the 3 of us just went up to her ‒ Just to say, "Hello."
and we just uh ‒ we just got chatting,
and she started to tell us about how she's been suffering with arthritis
and so arthritis throughout her body,
but particularly a lot of pain and immobility in her legs.
So one of the brothers just asked her, "Can we pray for you?"
She said, "Sure."
So this brother just got down on his knees,
which created this pretty wild scene there on the street
because like I said there were hundreds of people passing by,
and there's this friar was on his knees with his hands on her feet praying.
Prayed a simple prayer, and then he got up, and said, "Why don't you just check it out?"
She stood up off the bench,
and as soon as she stood up you could tell there was something that had happened.
And she told us, "I haven't been able to get up that quickly, that easily, for a really long time!"
The brother just invited her just take a few steps ‒ to see how the mobility and the pain was in her legs.
She walked about ten feet
and I looked at her face, and I started to see tears rolling down her face.
And then she started smiling and then laughing.
She said the pain was completely gone!
The three of us started laughing, and we were as amazed as she was!
And it was for us and for her
just an incredible experience of how God desires to bless His people.
How Our Father desired to bless this daughter of His who was just sitting there with her granddaughter that day
And...unexpectedly
These three friars turn up and become instruments of His blessing to her.
In some measure all of us have received
the Goodness, the Mercy, the Love of God, Our Father,
and His Son and
there's a there's a temptation, I think ‒ to think that we need to wait until we're ready,
until we're fully equipped before we can go out and
...
share with others what we have received.
The invitation is to let out what we have received
wherever we're at ‒ in the moment we're at ‒ right now.
In the way that we can.
There's this openness toward God.
And openness toward others.
And the more that we let that flow,
the more that we become who we really are ‒ so to give what we have received.
The Goodness, the Love, the Mercy of God. To become an instrument of that for others.
Even when we feel like, "I'm still making mistakes. I still don't think I'm really ready."
YOU'RE READY!
I'm gonna tell you what I think I'm hearing from Brother Francesco.
I think he's got a mission for us.
And I think this is what I'm hearing. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I think you want us to be instruments of God's grace to people in our in our lives.
I want it! God wants it!
God ‒ most importantly! That's most important! So here's what we need to do.
Let's ask the Lord, "Lord who is it in my life, in my family, in my office,
my friends ‒ whatever it is. Who is it you want me to to be an instrument of Your Love, of Your Mercy of Your Presence?"
So let's pray!
Let's ask the Lord that.
Let's ask him for the courage, the strength to say, "Yes!" to whatever it is we feel like he's asking of us.
We trust that he will use us!
Be inspired by the Prophet Jeremiah. In the in the book of the Prophet Jeremiah
He says, "What you have received, give without measure."
What you have received, give without measure."
When you give without measure ‒ you find that you just get totally filled up more and more!
Amen to that!
Amen!
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And remember brothers sisters, "Somos peregrinos poco a poco. Vamos a llegar" (We are pilgrims little by little. We are going to get there).
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See ya!