Only Jesus got me through this week

Yep, Jesus got me through this week.  Now he does so all the time, I'm just so powerfully aware of it these days.  To be honest, recovery from surgery and this 1st week back to work has kicked my ever-loving rear-end.  The well detailed escapades of how the week started off bad overnight Sunday into Monday morning and then the long 4 day ordeal of no AC at work all week surely had something to do with the physical and emotional toil.  I can honestly say that I've never quite been so tired as the days of this week which is ending mercifully on this quiet Friday late afternoon.  Despite being back to work I am indeed far from full strength and it surely manifested itself in the production, or lack of production which was my reality this week.  Thankful indeed for a staff that helped pull me through.


Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of this past week is that I felt incapable of working all day and attending ministry activity by evening.  I missed the adult faith formation class this past Tuesday night and was absent from prison this past Wednesday.  I did manage to endure a 2 hour plus conference call with many brother deacons as we put the finishing touches on an important document that both acknowledges our 40 years of service in the Archdiocese of New Orleans and clearly looks forward with vision.


All this being said, it was the power of prayer and the mercy of Jesus that I got through this week.  When I am struggling, sometimes it is hard for me to rest in prayer.  Yes, I struggled this week with that too, but there were several very important moments of connection.  You know even when we shut Him out on our end, Jesus still is there for us because He just can't deny Himself!!!  Prayer, a Rosary, some Scriptural reading and just quiet moments, especially at bedtime, which came earlier and earlier in the week that was!


In good and bad times, in joys and sorrows, on calm waters and stormy seas, we all must realize that it is Jesus that gets us through!  He sure got me through this tough week!  And He will again, and again!