Sunday, September 18th
Jesus said to the woman, "Thy faith hath saved thee, go in peace"
Luke 7:50

Faith is that which has been learned through experience, knowledge and love. That is what saves, for it is commitment to the source of all good experience. And such experience brings joy as with the Samaritan leper who returned to Me to give thanks for his healing "praising God with a loud voice"

All loving commitment to the will of the Father brings healing and wholeness, though not always healing of the body and a return to everyday life that was known before. The Father's will is over-riding in its totality as well as dynamic in its power. And He needs trust and confidence in that child of his whom he leads along a new and unfamiliar and unexpected path.

Such trust has to be developed by a quiet and constant action of the mind. Abandonment is the operative word - commitment in loving regard to that which inter-penetrates and circumferences. Borne up as a reluctant swimmer in deep water, the challenged soul - if so committed -, will learn the movements which will not only buoy him up but bring him safely and joyfully to the haven where he would be.

And even that haven is not truly known nor even fully desired until it is reached . But joy awaits the persistent ones ; those who, borne up in the waters of the Father's love, bravely and strongly follow where I have gone before, and even now lead every single child of the Father into the haven of His love to rejoice with all the faithful of all nations and all times.