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In her messages, the Blessed Virgin Mary often mentions the word "today", now, the present moment. She wants to say to us that yesterday is gone, that tomorrow has not arrived yet, that there is only today, now. Now I can decide for God and for prayer, now I can become believer or unbeliever. How many people live split up between yesterday and tomorrow, without living today, never being present to themselves in this time that God gives us. The majority of the messages of Our Lady start with: " I call you also today". Nothing has changed in the force, the love, the challenge of her calls and her messages. She remains the same, because she does not need any change. Let us ask ourselves how much we have changed or how much we remained unchanged. Because, the one does not advance on the way of faith moves back undoubtedly. The spiritual life is neither ease, nor comfort, but a permanent combat on the paths of faith, according to the words of Job: "Isn't human life on earth a combat?" Jb 7,1a) How much combat to ensure the material existence, how much more of it than on the spiritual way of faith in God! Jesus himself invites us and says: " Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation" (Mt 26,41) The time of Lent was a gift and an occasion to see ourselves in truth in front of God. In this message, Our Lady calls us to this same truth. In front of God, we are always small and only creatures, dependent in everything on our Creator. It is a grace to recognize and realise how much we are small and how much our faith is small. Nobody can say: "I believe in God hundred percent, I cannot believe more", "I love God so much that I cannot love him more". We always discover spaces within us where we did not allow yet God to enter. Our Lady invites us to make a decision: "Decide Also Today for God". Each one of us is responsible for his life and decisions. Mary can call us maternally, but she cannot do it in our place. She did all that she could. She can love us, but cannot live our life in our place, nor die in our place. She does not take away from us the freedom of our decision, just like God the Father did not take away from her the freedom of her decision when he sent the angel Gabriel at the Annunciation. In her freedom, Marie could say: "It is too difficult for me, it is beyond my forces and my capacities" Freely, she pronounced her "yes" to God. Today, she speaks and gives witness that she was not mistaken, and this is why she knows that we will not make a mistake if we decide for God. According to words of Sainte Therese of Avila, "God awaits our decision for to do then everything himself in us". Without our decision, he cannot, he does not want to act against our free will. If we allow it, God can change our hearts and the hearts of the others in us and through us. We cannot do it. We cannot convert anybody by our efforts to convince, our preaching and our fine words, intelligent and human. It is the work of God. What we can do, it is to prepare the ground in our heart for him, it is to create space for God within us. Then only, the Risen One will have place to enter into this peaceless world, which yearns for God and for everything that is from God. In his Confessions, St. Augustin confirms it: "You encourage it to seek joy by praising you, because you created us for you and our heart is without peace as long as it does not rest in you". (Confessions I,1) Mary gives us the promise to be and remain with us. She came to us and she continues to come with a heart full of a motherly love, to give it to all those who wish to open and receive her love. Let us allow her to lead us. Let us not be afraid, like she was not afraid to give her life to God. Medjugorje April 26, 2003
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Razmiljanje uz zadnju listopada, 25. travnja 2003 ODLUCITE SE I DANAS ZA BOGA "Draga djeco! Pozivam vas i danas da se otvorite molitvi. U prolom korizmenom vremenu shvatili ste koliko ste mali i koliko je vaa vjera malena. Djecice, odlucite se i danas za Boga da On u vama i preko vas mijenja srca ljudi, a i vaa srca. Budite radosni nositelji Uskrslog Isusa u ovom nemirnom svijetu koji udi za Bogom i za svim onim to je od Boga. Ja sam s vama, djecice, i ljubim vas posebnom ljubavlju. Hvala vam to ste se odazvali mome pozivu." Poruka, 25. travnja 2003 U svojim porukama Blaena Djevica Marija cesto spominje «danas», sada, ovaj trenutak. eli nam reci da je jucer prolo, a sutra jo nije dolo, postoji samo danas, sada. Sada se mogu odluciti za Boga i molitvu, sada mogu postati vjernik ili nevjernik. Koliki ljudi ive razapeti izmedu jucer i sutra a ne ive danas, tako da nikada nisu sa sobom i u ovom vremenu koje Bog daruje. Vecina Njezinih poruka pocinje: «Pozivam vas i danas». Nita se nije promijenilo u snazi, ljubavi i zahtjevnosti Gospinih poziva i poruka. Gospa je ostala ista jer ne treba vie nikakvu promjenu. Zapitajmo se koliko smo se mi promijenili odnosno koliko smo ostali isti. Jer, tko ne napreduje na putu vjere taj neminovno nazaduje. Duhovni ivot nije udobnost ni komotnost nego neprestana borba na putovima vjere. Kako veli patnik Job: «Nije l' vojska ivot covjekov na zemlji?» (Job 7, 1a). Koliko je potrebno borbe da se osigura materijalna egzistencija, jo je vie potrebna borba na duhovnom putu vjere u Boga. Sam Isus nas poziva i govori: «Bdijte i molite da ne padnete u napast» (Mt 26, 41). Korizma je bila dar i prigoda da vidimo sebe u istini pred Bogom. Toj istini nas i Gospa ovom porukom poziva. Uvijek smo pred Bogom maleni i samo stvorenja u svemu ovisna o svome Stvoritelju. Milost je upoznati i shvatiti koliko smo maleni i koliko je naa vjera malena. Nitko ne moe reci: «Ja vjerujem Bogu sto posto, ne mogu vie», «Ja ljubim Boga tako da ne mogu vie». Uvijek otkrivamo prostore u sebi u koje jo Bogu nismo dopustili da ude. Gospa nas poziva na odluku: «Odlucite se za Boga». Svatko je za svoj ivot i za svoje odluke odgovoran. Koliko god Marija kao Majka pozivala ona to ne moe uciniti umjesto nas. Ucinila je ono to je najvie mogla. Koliko god nas ljubila ona ne moe umjesto nas proivjeti na ivot niti moe umjesto nas umrijeti. Ona nam ne oduzima slobodu odluke kao to ni Bog Otac nije njoj oduzeo slobodu odluke kad joj je poslao andela Gabrijela kod Navijetenja. U svojoj slobodi i Marija je mogla reci: «To je preteko za mene, nadilazi moje snage i sile». U slobodi je izrekla svoj «Da» Bogu. Danas nam govori i svjedoci da se nije prevarila, pa zato zna da se ni mi necemo prevariti ako se odlucimo za Boga. «Bog ceka na nau odluku kako rece Sv. Terezija Avilska - kako bi onda sve sam u nama mogao uciniti». Bez te nae odluke on ne moe, odnosno nece protiv nae slobodne volje. Kad dopustimo Bogu onda On moe mijenjati naa srca i srca drugih ljudi u nama i preko nas. To mi ne moemo. Ne moemo nikoga obratiti svojim uvjeravanjima, propovijedima i lijepim ucenim ljudskim rijecima. Boji je to posao. Ono to mi moemo jest pripraviti mu teren u vlastitome srcu, stvoriti prostor za Boga u nama. Tek tada Uskrsli Isus ima prostora da dode u ovaj svijet koji treba Boga i koji udi za Bogom. Kako nam potvrduje sv. Augustin u svojim Ispovijestima: «Ti ga potice da trai radost hvaleci tebe, jer si nas stvorio za sebe, i nemirno je srce nae dok se ne smiri u tebi» (Ispovijesti I, 1). Marija nam daje obecanje, da jest i ostaje s nama. Ona nam je dola i dolazi srca ispunjenog ljubavlju Majke kako bi je mogla darovati svakome tko poeli otvoriti i primiti njezinu ljubav. Dopustimo joj da nas povede. Ne bojmo se, kao to se ona nije bojala, darovati svoj ivot Bogu. Fra Ljubo Kurtovic