Sometimes good people simply misunderstand each other.
From time to time, we all experience difficulties or differences with others. When we’re really troubled and there seems to be no solution, just like Father Peyton did, bring your worries to Mary.
Time and time again we’re shown we are not alone. God is so persistent in tracking us down! And the Holy Spirit is determined to help us.
When poet Francis Thompson emerged from the lowest point of his life, he wrote The Hound of Heaven. Within these words we discover how God is constantly pursuing our hearts. Sister Mary Ignatius also speaks to this:
Holy Spirit:
It’s this that makes my spirit spin,
My flesh to melt inside my skin,
My bones to quake,
My blood run thin,
My very pulse create a din,
It’s this that makes my spirit spin,
that heaven is not “up” but “In.”
The Holy Spirit dwells within us, my friends. Always, always like the Hound of Heaven seeking us out. We only have to open our hearts.
