“Common Sense”

Dear Blog,

What a blessed and fruitful trip to Saskatoon this weekend. I really did not know what to expect. The Big Sky Mission trip team needed to really rely on the Lord and trust in His plan that everything was going to “Work out”.

Funny story before I move on.

On the way to Saskatoon, which was an 8 hour drive by the way, one of the brothers in the car was sick and had a runny nose. It came to a point where he was sniffilin’ every 5-10 seconds and desperately needed some tissue to blow his nose. Therefore, we looked around in the van for some.

Looking throughly for a box of kleenex or even paper napkins from McDonalds or something (Sometimes we take too much and just leave it in our cars… right?), we had no luck. But, we found some wipes.

Score. We only had one problem. They were labelled “Tender Toughness” and were used to clean hard surfaces… WOMP WOMP.

Before we jumped to any conclusions, we wanted to check if the wipes were harmful when used on human skin. So, we checked the back to make sure that it was okay to use to blow the brother’s nose. We found the caution section but to our surprise it said, “COMMON SENSE CAUTION” which it then listed out all the things you should not do, including: do not rub on eyes, do not inhale, do not consume, etc.

Common sense caution? It actually said that.

As Catholics, we believe in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. We believe in many other things that brings joy to our heart and leads us to the everlasting kingdom which God has prepared for us.

It seems as if this should be common sense to us. It seems as though the teachings of the church, the sacraments, and loving thy neighbour as ourselves should not even be second guessed or even thought about. It should just be done.

But, of course, we tend to forget. We tend to let our human-ness take over us and we lose sight of what it truly means to have common sense in our heart. Christ in our heart. Christ in what we do, what we say and Him we believe in.

Actually, it should be more than common sense… it should be the only sense in our hearts. Christ in our hearts. It is also should be common sense that our Mother Mary should be the one who brings us closest to Her son.

But then sometimes I justify and say, “its hard sometimes” or “but he/she didn’t deserve to be given my love” or “I’ll just do this one time… no one will know.”

Lord, heavenly Father, grant us the strength and grace to know you more and more so that our heart resides in you.