DOUBT NOT...GOD CAN AND WILL IF SOUGHT

The Daily Meditations have been a constant presence in my life as I walk through the crumbling of my 30-year marriage. I’ve felt consoled in my anger and sadness at the loss of my past, present, and future life. I am beginning to embrace that I am more than my marriage, and I have so much to give others and myself. The anger and sadness still lurk in the shadows of my life, but acceptance and grace continue to sustain me. —Tom C., Fr Richard's Daily Meditations, May 18, 2025

This feels like me today in my anxiety over the apparent oncoming of dementia. Particularly the crumbling of my comfort in believing that my intense anxiety had been tamed. Of course it never had been...like the sleeping tiger, it was just lying in wait. 

My lapses of memory have awakened it...my fear of dementia, to be specific, has awakened my intense anxiety. 

Ah, God has just reminded me that it was over 50 years ago when intense anxiety brought me to the Fellowship where I found the God of my understanding. Over the years I have made peace with anxiety, have feared it not for many years.

It has roared back with dementia (which seems to be an epidemic today) entering the public arena. Now there's a laughable comfort...if that be mine, I am not alone! 

I will get tested, get the certain word as opposed to my fear's word...and sincerely pray thank You for whatever the outcome. 

Lord, hear my prayer, thank You.

Thank you.