Luke: Simon answered, “Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets.”
I know I have felt this way when I try to do things my way. However, if I feel that inner guidance, "Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets," and obey, my life is more abundant.
Sometimes, we get stuck on the Habitrail (that age-old rodent revolver), where we keep running without going anywhere. We just keep spinning the wheel, running faster and faster, going nowhere. At some point, we have to slow down, breathe, and listen.
I just found out about a retreat center somewhere in our state, where you can do your own silent retreat. You rent a cabin and stay in silence, go to Mass, eat in silence. Bless me, Father, it's been eight years since my last silent retreat.
My life is about to get crazy busy so I want to spend some good, quality time with God. I want to be able to hear Jesus say, "Let down your nets over there," and feel the Holy Spirit guide me along my path.
May 5
Matthew: “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Mark: Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones.
Luke: Simon answered, “Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets.”
John: One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
Acts: Now when Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard of it.
Romans: and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
1 Corinthians: you are to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
2 Corinthians: He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
Galatians: For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Ephesians: Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure person, or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
1 Thessalonians: for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.
1 Timothy: The real widow, left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day;
Hebrews: So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”;
James: You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
1 Peter: In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
1 John: Who is it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Revelation: Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”