Franciscan University (my alma mater) publishes an e-devotional that they send out daily. Here's the one for today, which I thought was beautiful, and is from one of my favorite priests, Fr. Dave Pivonka, who served as Vice President of the University while I was a student there:
“Watch a child. If a little boy falls in the park and scrapes his elbow, he instinctively runs to his father or mother to make it better… More often than not, the parent can do nothing except gently kiss the bruised elbow and tell the little one that it is going to be OK. The amazing thing is that often this is all the child needs. The kiss doesn’t “fix” it; it just lets the little one know that he is loved, he is not alone, and he is going to be OK. Sadly, as we grow up we begin to believe that a little kiss or a mere hug isn’t going to fix anything, so we stop asking… God the Father is inviting you to run to him with your cut elbows, broken heart or shattered dreams. No hurt is too little and none is too great.”
Fr. Dave Pivonka, TOR Spiritual Freedom: God’s Life Changing Gift, Servant Books
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