Being God's Instrument - New Evangelizers

Do you ever find yourself overwhelmed with the job in front of you?

As a parent, I know my job is to get my family to heaven. Which is a worthy goal and a never-ending task.

And completely impossible to succeed at on my own.

I can barely make it through the day without committing a confession-worthy sin. How exactly am I supposed to get OTHER PEOPLE to heaven?

Here’s some encouragement for me (and you too) straight from Pope Benedict:

What marvels surround our work in the service of God’s word! We are instruments of the Holy Spirit; God is so humble that he uses us to spread his word. We become his voice, once we have listened carefully to the word coming from his mouth. We place his word on our lips in order to bring it to the world. He accepts the offering of our prayer and through it he communicates himself to everyone we meet.

As it turns out, it’s not my problem. All I have to do, as usual, is let go and let God.

Wow.

Copyright © 2013, Sarah Reinhard

Sarah Reinhard

Sarah Reinhard continues to be shocked and delighted that her life as a grown-up involve horses, writing, and sparkly dress shoes. In her work in the New Evangelization as a Catholic wife, mom, writer, parish employee, and catechist, she’s learned a lot of lessons, had a lot of laughs, and consumed mass amounts of coffee. She’s online at SnoringScholar.com and CatholicMom.com, and is the author of a number of books.