West Derwentside Catholic Partnership

If you were trying to set up an international organisation aiming to change the world would you have picked the apostles as your executive directors? None of them had any relevant experience that we know of, they had not been to college or university, they weren’t clever or especially skilled, they weren’t even good fishermen some days. Yet these are the people Jesus chose to build his kingdom, not because they were learned and clever or holy but because they were willing to trust Him, even when what He was saying and advising didn’t make much sense to them. They were willing to become like little children who do what their parents say because deep down they know Mammy and Daddy know best.
So you see you do not need to be learned or clever or holy or even have any specialist skills to follow Jesus. You just need an open heart because the miracle here is that God can take whatever inadequacies we offer Him and work through who we are to build a community based on kindness, generosity and forgiveness. To trust Him we need to put down the hurts and troubles we are carrying, hand them over to the Lord and put our head into His yoke so He may share our load and lead us to a place where we ‘will find rest for our souls’.