One thing that brings great joy to me every day is to give my children what they need. It is a feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction. I do all can for them because I love them so, but I don't want them toned me forever. I know one day I will be gone, and I want them to be able to take care if themselves when that day arises. Something that I have been working on with them is to ask when they want something. Often they will walk around kicking their shoes against the ground with that look in their eye. I tell them that you will never know what you can get out of life if you do not ask. God is very similar, he wants to be there with you always. He wants to be your shoulder to lean on, your fountain of knowledge and place to receive the strength to get each day. I have known those that wish to choose God like an ATM or a genie. When we seek to serve ourselves for our own gratification God recommends the opposite and will stand aside if we insist, but he will serve us out of love if to spread love in a righteous way is our desire. He can see inside each one of our hearts and patiently waits for the day and hour when we realize that we not only need him but want him forever in our lives.
Sirach 42:15-25
15I will now call to mind the works of the Lord, and will declare what I have seen. By the words of the Lord his works are done. 16The sun looks down on everything with its light, and the work of the Lord is full of his glory. 17The Lord has not enabled his holy ones to recount all his marvelous works, which the Lord the Almighty has established that the universe may stand firm in his glory. 18He searches out the abyss, and the hearts of men, and considers their crafty devices. For the Most High knows all that may be known, and he looks into the signs of the age. 19He declares what has been and what is to be, and he reveals the tracks of hidden things. 20No thought escapes him, and not one word is hidden from him. 21He has ordained the splendors of his wisdom, and he is from everlasting and to everlasting. Nothing can be added or taken away, and he needs no one to be his counselor. 22How greatly to be desired are all his works, and how sparkling they are to see! 23All these things live and remain for ever for every need, and are all obedient. 24All things are twofold, one opposite the other, and he has made nothing incomplete. 25One confirms the good things of the other, and who can have enough of beholding his glory?
Mark 10:46-52
46And they came to Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimae'us, a blind beggar, the son of Timae'us, was sitting by the roadside. 47And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" 48And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent; but he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" 49And Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." And they called the blind man, saying to him, "Take heart; rise, he is calling you." 50And throwing off his mantle he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51And Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" And the blind man said to him, "Master, let me receive my sight." 52And Jesus said to him, "Go your way; your faith has made you well." And immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way.
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