4th Week of Easter, Friday, 08-05-2020

Acts 13:26-33 / John 14:1-6

We may have heard of this song "Don't Worry Be Happy". It has a simple tune and simple words and we would sung along with it before.

The opening verse goes like this:

Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy

Oh yes, in life we will have trouble, at times big, at times small.

But trouble is trouble. We don't look for trouble, but the trouble is trouble looks for us!

Or is it? Is trouble some kind of roaring lion that is looking for someone to eat?

We should have realised by now, that more often than not, we create the troubles for ourselves, just as we create problems for ourselves.

Especially in this particular time, we may have come to realise that most of our problems and most of the problems in the world are self-created.

Whether we have yet to realise that or not, whenever there are troubles in life, our hearts are not at peace.

And when our hearts are not at peace, and when our lives are in pieces, then what should we do?

Of course we will try to put things together and try to look for peace.

But peace is not just an ideology or a principle to be followed. 

Jesus is our Prince of Peace. And that is why He tells us in the gospel, "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still, and trust in me."

And we also remember Jesus telling us this: Come to me, all you who are weary and find life burdensome, and I will give you rest.

So we come before Jesus with our troubled hearts and we ask Him to give us the peace that only He can give.

But it is not just don't worry, be happy. Rather, it is don't worry, be holy. Yes, be holy, as God is holy, and He is calling us to be holy.

So as we come before Jesus, as we come before His Sacred Heart, let us ask Him to help us to be holy in all that we do, so that we can rest in His Sacred Heart and be at peace.

In our lives and in our hearts, God must be in the centre, and then everything else will come together.