My Lord and God. You send forth messengers bearing Your Word. Do I listen? Do I sense the Christ in the message? In my heart I know Your presence and awe surrounds it. I can not hear nor barely speak directly to focus of all Creation, the ultimate source of love and power, Your eternal Being.  None is worthy – to speak or hear. Yet, that is the essence of Your Incarnation: Your Son. Human. Perfect Being sharing imperfect human form. And suffering. Only apart form us in sin; tempted but not swayed. Part of God and thereby unswayable. Word made flesh to impart words spread by flesh. How can I not listen nor speak?

Lord, I will read for the next forty days the works and meditations of Your servant Bonaventura. May I find more fullness of understanding, not only in mind, but in soul. May Your Word reflected in Bonaventura’s journey be implanted that I may bear more fruit for You, nourished by Your grace and understanding, so that I may live this gift of life always for You.