A Mediation to Ponder

I used this mediation at the end of my "Reflection" chapel this week at Huntington University. It is a variation of Cardinal Newman's meditation. I first came across it as a post on Margaret Fienberg's Facebook site. Margaret Fienberg is one of my favorite contemporary women writers. (Check out her newest book, "The Sacred Echo" - I highly recommend it.)

A Meditation

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission -- I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for nothing. I shall do good, I shall do His work.

Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am. I cannot be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends, He may throw me among strangers, He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, even seem as if he is hiding my future from me -- still He knows what He is about.

Amen. And amen.