The following excerpt is from a meditation by Msgr. Charles
Pope at http://blog.adw.org/2014/12/
God has us here in this
place at this time for a reason. We have some very particular purposes in His
plan and He alone knows them all. Try for a moment to appreciate your dignity in
this regard. You play a critical part in a cascade of events that ripple from
your life and your place in God’s plan. No one can take that place and your role
is crucial to millions of subsequent transactions in God’s wonderful vision.
Psalm 139 has this to say:
O
LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it
completely, O LORD. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me
to attain. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s
womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are
wonderful. All my days were written in your book before one of them came to
be (Psalm 139, selected verses).
Despite whatever differences exist in our perceived
purposes in God’s plan, one common
purpose is to share our interest about Venerable Matt Talbot with others and to
pray for his canonization.