Anger and lingering resentments from our interactions with other people are often of signs of our needs for healing, that we have sensitivity to a particular wound that is open and in need of care. When we experience this, we can ask ourselves what is underneath all the anger.
A person striving for meekness is someone willing to look at their poverty and weaknesses--someone who isn't afraid to enter into those places in the heart with the Lord that are in need of healing.
The Holy Family had meekness. Though they had a passion for the salvation of souls, from defending humanity from the works of the evil one, passsion for each person who crossed their path . . . no one knew that they were encounting the Son of God and His Immaculate Mother. They were approachable, and down-to-earth, and unassuming.
When we encounter the hardness of our own hearts . . . the meekness of Jesus can heal us. The desire for healing and the willingness to let the Lord into those places in our hearts is the thirst for justice. It is a thirst for holiness and wholeness. It is a desire for the places we have been wronged by others and we have wronged others to be made right. It is a thirst for union and communion with the Lord.
"We must believe that God wants to wed us in spite of our ugliness and, believing, allow Him to do it." (Fr. Jacques Philippe, The Eight Doors of the Kingdom).
Where are the places in your heart that you feel a need for deeper healing?
My fear of abandonment and rejection that manifests itself whenever a relationship ends and I see that my feelings are dismissed and my worth as a human being is not seen and valued.
With the Holy Family by your side, ask the Father to reveal the places in your heart that He thirsts to heal you.
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