“Seek. The finding is not our job. Just seek and you will find.” ~Father Kevin McGoldrick

Let your heart be led by the seeking. You don’t have to know the outcome, you don’t have to see the whole pathway, all you have to do is take the first step. It’s so easy to get caught up in our own thoughts, our attempt at planning and plotting to make a situation unfold the way we desire. We process through the potential events of the future in our head and invest unnecessary emotions into events that will likely never transpire because we feel comfort in our attempt to control.

Let go. Just let go. All you have to do is seek. As you step out in faith, even with just the first step, the next step will appear just as the last one did. It may not be the step you anticipated and it may not be the step you even desire in the moment, but it will present itself in perfect timing. Keep seeking.

“The mountaintop we are climbing is an infinite peak – out of our ability to reach it.” ~Father Kevin McGoldrick

You will never get to the top of that mountain called life. You will never get to a peak where you have done it all, seen it all, experienced it all, lived it all, until your time on earth expires. Keep seeking, keep climbing. Would you rather end your life at the bottom of the mountain or as far as your life could possibly lead you with a multitude of experiences and steps along the way?

Today is the celebration of the Epiphany of the Lord, which marks the visitation of the magi to the newborn baby Jesus. I’ve always been fascinated by the magi and their fearlessness to drop everything and follow a star because they felt the truth of what that star meant deep in their hearts, even if they didn’t really know what the future would look like. What does it really mean to seek like the magi did?

During this morning’s homily, Father Kevin McGoldrick revealed an angle to this piece of history that I had never visited before. I want to attempt to paraphrase just a piece of that.

The star leads the magi to the revelation of God, not to Jesus. The magi had to seek. In return, Divine revelation revealed that God had been seeking them the whole time. God is constantly searching for man. He has been seeking us all along. The finding is really Jesus finding us in many ways. He tells us, “it is not you who chose me, but I who chose you.”

You’ve already been chosen. You are constantly being sought.

Seek, so your seeking meets the seeking of the Lord. It is there where you will find majesty, royalty, truth, and the Lord’s greatest delight, just as the magi did.

“In this year of mercy, allow Jesus to find you and pull you close so His love can swallow you up in His mercy.” ~Father Kevin McGoldrick

Everything we have is because of God’s mercy. Everything is a gift. What a sweet gift indeed.

Merry Christmas!