Peter Ireorji, MSP - Homily Friday, April 5, 2019

When we are broken hearted, we may simply feel forgotten and forsaken by God. This feeling can come into our hearts when we are downcast and in the midst of pain and suffering. During those times we hardly realize God’s Hands are working and touching our lonely hearts. This broken hearted kind of feeling can come to an elderly who is ready to go home to the Lord, yet God’s call has not come.  In the meantime, he is patiently waiting in sickness and pain. It can also strike on someone whose troubles just keep multiplying due no fault of his own. And quite often it can strike all of us, when problems linger indefinitely with no possible resolution in sight. When we get the lost, forgotten and forsaken feeling, it’s time to remember what Jesus continue to tell us- that our Heavenly Father never forgets anyone and that not a single flower dies and not a single sparrow ever falls from the sky without God knowing it. God will never forget His people. He will never forsake us. He simply has a different timetable and His plan, quite different from ours. Today we should move with great confidence in our hearts that even if our lives are inundated by problems and trials, we do not have to bear them alone, for God is always by our side. Shalom!