The Unimaginable

Monday, June 10, 2024

There are moments that the words don't reach

There is suffering too terrible to name

You hold your child as tight as you can

And push away the unimaginable

There are moments that the words don't reach

There's a grace too powerful to name

We push away what we can never understand

We push away the unimaginable."

Lyrics from Hamilton the Musical

Michael and Courtney,

I have pushed away writing this blog.

Day by day and night by night, the unimaginable is being lived.

I keep thinking of our Sorrowful Mother Mary looking up at the One she

once carried inside her.

Unimaginable.

She clings to the Cross.

Standing by our Sorrowful Mother are St. Mary Magdalene, St. John the Beloved and the women at the Cross.

I have felt ever so close to St. Mary Magdalene these past few weeks.

Mary Magdalene stood by the sorrowful Mother and her child at the hour of death.

There is nothing I can do to make the unimaginable go away.

I can and will, stand by and with you at the Cross.

In the hope of the Resurrection.

“Jesus wants to restore us to what man had in the Garden of Eden: nakedness-vulnerability-without shame (Genesis 2:25). He longs to break those chains that tether us to a life of existence instead of a life of abundance.”

Be Still - Daily Devotional by Lisa Brenninkmeyer

Asking your little flower to help us live for the abundant life.

A life unimaginable in the beautiful garden.

"O Jesus, give us thy heart, as a pledge of thy love, and as a place of refuge, that we may find therein a secure-repose during life, and a sweet comfort at the hour of death. My Savior! Hide me in thy sacred heart, until the storm of life is past."

A prayer from the St. Vincent’s Manual that expresses this sentiment of asking to be placed within Jesus’ heart while the storm of life rages on.