Faithfulness is one of the fruits of the spirit. Practicing faithfulness means honoring our baptismal vows and keeping our commitment to being Jesus' disciple. What does faithfulness look like in 2015 on the other side of the Resurrection?
I spent the Triduum and Easter with the sisters at St. Scholastica. Being faithful for them means trusting God even in the midst of having to sell some of their property and make changes in how they do things. It means showing up for prayer and demonstrating hospitality even when they don't feel like it. Faithfulness for some means accepting a new job and moving to a place that they know nothing about. For others, it is giving of their time to visit shut-ins and pray with the sick.
Faithfulness means listening to God's call and doing the best you can with what you have been given. For me it means serving God as a wife, a spiritual director and a graduate student. In all of these roles, I am called to do my best and to show Christ's love in my daily tasks.
Yet giving God our best does not mean being perfect or checking off a list everyday; it means showing up and letting God work through us. We do this best by being willing and by asking God for strength each day. In this we can take a lesson from the Sisters; while perhaps we cannot meet in a church for 30 minutes everyday at noon but we can pause throughout our day and dedicate our work to God.
Faithfulness is ongoing and for those of us who believe and live on the other side of the Resurrection; we are called to be committed to Jesus the Christ in all we do. Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;" (John 11:25. NIV). The Resurrection transforms when we keep our promises and allow God to lead.
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