What is God calling you to do?….What is stopping you from doing it!……You of little faith, why are you afraid?

Today the Universal Church honors St Frances Xavier Cabrini, known to the world as Mother Cabrini……This woman shook the foundations of the world!….A tiny woman, much like Mother Teresa, Mother Cabrini abandoned herself to the will of God and God used her to assist immigrants in America during the early part of the 20th century…Interestingly enough, Mother Cabrini did not want to come to America, she wanted to go to China...... When she met with Pope Leo XIII, the Pope told her that she was needed in America, so she went, abandoning her dreams to go to China…..She was needed in America!….When asked to open a hospital in America, Mother Cabrini at first pleaded her ignorance of health care….That night in a dream Our Lady appeared to her and said….”I am doing the work you refuse to do”…Mother Cabrini awoke from the dream and as a result took on the work of building the hospital…What should this tell us?….God has plans for us!….And he WILL enable us to accomplish those plans!…We must have absolute confidence in God and “set aside” our “ideas”…That is a revolutionary concept, one many will shy away from…That is a terrible mistake!…Jesus Christ was the greatest revolutionary that ever walked the earth…We too must be “revolutionaries”….God can use us but before he does, we must trust him, his ideas are far greater then our own….Don’t you think its time to “put down the glass in your hand and reach for the jug?”

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. In verdant pastures he gives me repose; Beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul”

The first time I traveled to India I got very sick…I found myself for two days with dysentery and a fever in bed…I was traveling all alone so I had no one to help me….Fear was trying to set in…I kept thinking to myself…”How will I get home?”…I can’t even get off this bed…As those two days wore on, I was fully convinced that God called me to go to India…I was sure of it…I was also sure God did not send me there to die….Right before I went home and got back on the plane I was very weak…I was convinced I would never return…..I was speaking to a French volunteer and was telling him how sick I got and how I would never come back…This man looked me dead in the eye and said…”You will come back”…He was right…I came back five more years in a row…The devil uses fear, his greatest weapon, which prevents us to be the people God called us to be…Fear causes us to question God’s love for us…Never let fear stop you!…..When you know in your heart what you must do, keep moving forward!…God’s plans are ALWAYS better than what we “think” our plans are or "should" be!

“He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side With your rod and your staff that give me courage.”

Like Mother Cabrini, we have our own dreams and plans…Mother Carbini wanted to go to China…The Pope sent her to America - And she went….Mother Cabrini did not know anything about founding hospitals….Our Lady spoke to her in a dream……Mother Cabrini put aside her fear and founded many hospitals…..“God does not call the qualified, He qualifies the called”…Let nothing hold you back….Nothing!….St Paul assures us in Scripture….“For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do”……Do you need more examples of how God works?…..”God called Noah to build an ark, even though Noah wasn't a carpenter or shipbuilder. God also called Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, even though Moses doubted his ability. God equipped Moses with the power and grace to do the job”…What is God calling you to do?….What is stopping you from doing it!……You of little faith, why are you afraid?