STAY AWAKE & WAIT ?!!! (Mt 24:42-46) by Sara Beaner

27 Aug STAY AWAKE & WAIT ?!!! (Mt 24:42-46) by Sara Beaner

“So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming. You may be quite sure of this if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house. Therefore, you too must stand ready because the son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Who, then is the wise and trustworthy servant whom the master placed over is household to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed that servant if his master’s arrival finds him doing exactly that.” ~ Mt 24:42-46 (full readings)
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Sara’s Reflections:  Have you ever as parents stayed awake waiting in the middle of the night for a bad thunderstorm to finally dissipate, so you can either put your kids back up stairs to bed; or waiting to see if you should wake your family up to take them down to the basement for safety?  You are awake being on guard and waiting.  Or when you were a child on Christmas Eve, you stayed awake, and waited to see who is the one really putting those presents under the Christmas tree.  Maybe you had to drive a long way to get to your destination, you had to stay awake to reach home and you couldn’t wait until you got there.  In our Gospel today Jesus is trying to tell us as LIFE Runners, as Pro Life Christians, we are to stay awake, be on guard, stay strong, and wait for Him to come.  WE are not to give into despair or let our guard down, or even fall into the “culture of death”.  For instance, to say it is okay to abort a baby conceived out of rape or incest is segregating those babies just on the basis on how they were conceived, so we can be liked by many people. Or We may as LIFE Runners or Pro Lifers feel like waiting for an end to abortion is getting too hard to fight and defend those little tiny babies’ lives and we think we need a break from it all so someone else can do the job.  But Jesus is telling us He has put His Trust in us on His Mission for Life and He will come and give His victories when we least expect it.  He has come several times to us LIFE Runners and Pro Lifers.  Did we see Him?  Did we acknowledge His victories or claimed them as our own?  Do we see Him now?  Or are we awake, waiting so long and hard for just the big victory where He will come to end ALL abortion?  While we have been waiting and watching, we have become lazy thinking someone else can pray, run, walk, be at the front lines, do sidewalk counseling, or even wear our LR blue out in public.  When it is hard and we want to give into “someone else” this is where Satan will attack us and this is then where Jesus comes to us unexpectedly to help us and carry us to His victory.  Here is when we are to remain obedient and Trustworthy Blue Warriors of His staying on guard and strong defending and fighting for all human life, from conception to natural death.  We will then be among His Blessed.
* Sara Beaner is the mother of 10 children (3 in Heaven due to miscarriage).  She home schools her children.  Sara is active at the St. Joseph Cathedral in Sioux Falls, SD and restores statues for churches.

Faith Challenge:   Today put on your LR blue and go pray, walk/run one mile for the unborn and the abortion-minded people.

Counter-Culture News: LifeSiteNews, LifeNews, American Family, Vatican, Project Rachel..
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Our Prayers: Pray LIFE Runners Creed to End Abortion.  Add Prayers. Pray with meals, bedtime, wake up, unceasingly. Consider mid-week Family Rosary (17 min). Let’s pray now.
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Feast Day:  St. Monica
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Faith Quote:  “Rejoice and be glad for your reward will be great in Heaven.” ~ Mt 5:12

Through Christ our Lord,
Sara Beaner