Continuing the Journey.

 Novena Day Five, Continuing the Journey.  

We begin with one Our Father, One Hail Mary and One Glory Be to God.

As we continue to grow and love Saint Monica, I understand that she had a special gift of fortitude and patience in prayer, she knew God would answer. We don’t always see the fruits of our prayers well not straight away. It is written that she prayed for seventeen years before Saint Augustine converted in August of 386.

Despite the setbacks she was persistent and kept on praying she had shed a lifetime of tears. Seventeen years is a lot of tears to be shed so something I can’t wrap my mind around is how could God resist a woman’s constant appeals for so long?

Well, it’s all got to do with God’s timing. For us it might feel as though God’s timing is never perfect, but it is perfect, never early and never late. It takes a whole lot of patience and an enormous amount of faith to believe and trust in God’s timing. For everything if it’s meant to be, it will be at the right time and for the right reasons.

I love the following from (© 2023 Spiritual Inspiration), “God uses difficult times to shape us and make us more like Christ. We can understand that God is there in every difficult time and helps us because the bible says, “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” The Lord allowed those challenging hours, days, and years to turn you into the person He wants you to become.”

I believe in that, and I believe that was the case for Saint Monica, God doesn’t give us more than we can handle as 1 Corinthians 10:13 suggests, "you can trust God not to let you be tried beyond your strength, and with any trial he will give you a way out of it and the strength to bear it." Although, it took seventeen years for Saint Augustine to be converted, Saint Monica continued her journey until the day she died at the age of fifty- six, Augustine thirty- three, and the year was 387.

Let us pray:

Saint Monica, we can sometimes doubt and fear and decide not to continue our journeys because it can feel as though it’s a lifetime before we see the fruits of our prayers. But today we pray for strength and faith in God’s perfect timing. AMEN.

May God Bless Always, Faith, Hope and Love by My Mother Rose.

Written and created by Katie Robinson.