Light On Dark Water

As I’ve no doubt said before here, I’m not the sort of person who feels that God is speaking directly to him very often. I have never heard anything like a physical voice that I thought was God’s, and there have only been a few times when something came to my mind with such force that it seemed to be from him. A couple of times it was words that simply appeared in my mind, addressed to me. And once, not too long ago, it was words that I read.

This happened some months ago. I was praying the Divine Mercy prayers in the Presence, and after I had finished the prayers themselves I read this sentence from Sister Faustina’s diary, in which Jesus says to her “I desire to give unimaginable graces to those who trust in my mercy.”

The words struck me with almost electric force. I believe it was partly the word “unimaginable” that got me. That, and “trust.” I knew that this, above all, is what I am supposed to do: to trust, and never give up trusting, in the Mercy. And that I must never give up the hope of that unimaginable end, in which the Mercy will not only heal everything but open the door to…we don’t really even have a word to put there, do we?

This is a Divine Mercy icon by Daniel Nichols, which my wife and I commissioned from him for our 30th wedding anniversary. Click on the image for a larger version.

Daniel’s web site is Eighth Day Icons.