tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439331035718369167.post6506105525602166828..comments2024-02-09T02:48:13.776-06:00Comments on Daily Meditations with Fr. Alfonse: Jn 13:21-38 BetrayalFr. Alfonsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02557206560119402976noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439331035718369167.post-61258890556240815352012-04-04T09:47:14.781-05:002012-04-04T09:47:14.781-05:00This meditation has shaken me and moved me to tear...This meditation has shaken me and moved me to tears. Your words are so beautiful and insightful. I don't think that I've ever really put enough thought into this passage, I mean, in that how painful and personal it must have been for Jesus. It's so easy to forget that Jesus is equally both human and Divine and that he also grieved as we do, or maybe even moreso over the lack of love from his closest friends. As always, thank you for this beautiful meditation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439331035718369167.post-91334309406447070332012-04-03T23:34:48.476-05:002012-04-03T23:34:48.476-05:00Like all of us, he must have thought that love cou...Like all of us, he must have thought that love could conquer all things.....<br /><br />Well, it does. .... The Lord never changed. How easy it could have been to change. <br /><br />Yes the Lord didn't need to change, but sometimes, often times we do. And it may have been easy for Jesus, but not so much for us!<br /><br /><br />“That’s it. I’m done!” “I’m through with this.” “I give up!” “I give in” “I don’t care anymore” “It’s not worth it” “I’m through.” “I’m finished.”<br /><br />I have thought those words many times, with my children, my spouse and even friends. And I have said them, but I never stuck to them. There may have been times that I should have, but I seem to have this fierce determination inside me that may fall, drop or give in for a time, but I cannot stay down. <br /><br />Maybe because I've been on the other side and it is so painful. For the longest time the words, "you will never get it!" resonated in my head over and over and over. The words that a one time friend said to me several times in a fit of anger. I felt like such a failure and at times I believed it. But there was something inside me that wanted to prove him wrong and I did. I wanted so bad to show him he was wrong, but by the time I got there, it didn't matter any more. <br /><br />When I look at him now I see a man that is sad and unhappy trying to keep from looking those he's hurt with his words and actions, in the eyes.<br /><br />I pray for him every day, I still love him. I will never give up on him. I know he WILL get 'it' one day, like I have.<br /><br />And maybe one day that friendship will be healed. I have forgiven him, but I don't think he's ready to forgive. And it's okay because I'm okay. <br /><br />Who knows, maybe it was providential, like he once told me, because had he not been so mean, I may have stayed stuck where I was and not soared to the new heights that I never even thought were possible for me.<br /><br />God can bring good out of everything and everyone! I don't know how, but I have experienced it over and over and over in recent history alone!<br /><br />Let’s learn from the Master himself. You don’t give up till you breathe your last. You never give in. You never give up. You fight till the end. You fight until you win!<br /><br />I wish my one time friend could experience the freedom I have...but it is so very humbling and he may not be ready for that:(<br /><br />But I will NOT give up on him because God can do anything!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com