WEDNESDAY, June 2 (Blandina and her Companions)

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15. [God] has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

The world God has made and in which he has placed us is indeed "suitable"--and beautiful, challenging, irritating, enjoyable, fragile, and many other things. But because God has also put into our minds "a sense of past and future," we cannot be content with this present world as all-sufficient and all there is. There is more than we can see. We are baffled by the mystery of our existence because we know we do not see everything--much of the past has been unnoted or forgotten, and we can only guess the future. We "cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end." And then there is eternity, which is beyond past, present, and future. What is that?

Jesus said, "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). We need look no further than Jesus. Jesus is eternity in time. He is the answer God gives us. We will not understand everything in this life, and probably not in the next. Much will ever be beyond our understanding. But Jesus we know, and that knowledge is sufficient for us. (1959)

PRAY for the Diocese of Dallas (Province VII, USA)

Ps 119:49-72 * 49, [53]; Galatians 2:11-21; Matt 14:1-12

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