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Hey guys. I used to think I was pretty special for getting up at four o’clock in the morning once a week to join the calls with Christopher and the rest of the men in the Padre Pio group. I thought it was a great sign of my dedication.
And then this morning I heard a story about this guy who got up at two o’clock in the morning to do his holy hour and drove for six hours to go to Mass. This guy was so hungry to be with our Lord, he was so hungry to have that intimate connection with Our Lord that he was willing to get up at two o’clock in the morning and drive six hours to go to Mass in another state.
And if you think about that, it’s not just the getting up early and the sacrifice of sleep, but it’s the time in the car, it’s the travel, it’s the expense, it’s the unknowns that will happen along the way- the unknown of getting to a strange parish and maybe they won’t let you in, maybe the parking lot will be full, maybe they’ll run out of Communion. And yet this man took all of these risks on joyfully and without a thought for anything except for being there with our Lord.
Now, do we have that kind of passion? That devout recklessness in our hearts for the Lord to put everything else second and worry about nothing else but just coming into a meeting with the Lord?
I’ve got a lot of work to do. I hope this has been helpful for you. Think about divine, devout recklessness.