[00:00] Praise be Jesus and Mary. Today's Gospel speaks of accepting the testimony of the Son of God. Much of the spiritual life is about receptivity, of receiving and

[00:35] accepting God, His revelation, His salvific gifts, and ultimately Himself. He communicates His very divine life to us. But here's the problem. St. Augustine says that God always tries to give us good things, but our hands are too full to receive them. Meaning, there is no room, there's no space in our minds and our

[01:10] hearts, perhaps because of sin, perhaps because of disordered attachment to particular goods, because perhaps of worries, of anxieties, or perhaps a lack of trust in the Lord. Our hands are too full to receive them. God gives. He also permits trials and tribulations in

[01:40] our own life, but He only does this so we can grow from them. Because if He permits trials, tribulations, spiritual desolation, He always gives the graces necessary to be able to overcome them. Every single day, He gives us the graces we need. He permits the things in our day. He also gives the graces we need in the day. So let us trust the Lord.

[02:18] Let us receive and accept the gifts that He wants and He will give us today. Let us accept what He permits today, knowing that in the end, He always gives us the graces necessary to be able to do His will.