Be Still

and let God do the work

This week on the Raised Catholic podcast, we’re keeping it short and sweet as the Heavens are telling the glory of God. Here in Massachusetts, the trees are blossoming and the flowers are coming up bright and beautiful and it’s all such a cycle of expected miracles that it may be easy to miss.

Because we didn’t need to do a thing, did we, to convince the pear and cherry trees to shoot out thousands of perfect white and pale pink flowers on their branches and then let the sun shine magically through them and then sprinkle down petals like the most gorgeous shower and carpet you’ve ever seen.

We didn’t need to say one hundred rosaries or beg the forsythia on our knees to shock us with its yellow branches or implore the saints to help the weeds to grow up through concrete or pathways or fences. No, these things grow because that’s what they’re made to do. That’s what we’re made to do too, in this holy order that God has planned for us and which requires nothing of us except to turn our faces to the Son and to let God do the work.

This week on the podcast, you’ll hear a favorite poem of mine from Mary Oliver. It’s called “Praying,” and I hope it will help us to notice the abundance of what God is doing, to let Him speak into it, and then to muster up a few clunky words of thanks while we enjoy the splendor of what God has made.

Listen to Raised Catholic episode 173: Be Still on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts (or read the transcript) and then come on back here to the comments to let me know how God is showing off around you these days with the Providential beauty of His creation.