Life’s Steps (11/15/2025)

We don’t remember our first steps; however, we know how to walk. We instinctively understand that it involves putting one foot in front of the other and repeating that process until we arrive at our destinations. Are we as instinctive about reaching our ultimate destination? Are we taking all the steps in life we should?

Step 1: Anything worth doing is worth beginning with prayer. Anything worth wanting merits prayer. When we say the prayer our Savior taught us, and we utter, “Give us this day our daily bread,” we aren’t just asking the LORD to make sure we have food on our tables. We are asking for the LORD’s provision of life’s necessities. Our Savior wanted us to understand that we need to bring our needs and desires and hopes to our Father Almighty. Step 1 is asking for the LORD’s power and presence in our day and being persistent in our prayer.

Step 2: “Do whatever He tells you to do.”  Our Blessed Mother, Mary, was very adamant when she told the servants at Cana to “do whatever He tells you to do.” They didn’t understand why He asked them to do what He did. After all, what good is gallons of water when the people want wine? But they did it. Doing whatever the LORD is calling us to do daily may not seem to have any bearing on what we’ve asked the LORD for in prayer. But from where we are, we can’t always see the whole picture, how things come together to form the tapestry of life.  From our perspective below, it may look like a lot of knots and unconnected lines, but from the LORD’s perspective it makes sense as the tapestry of life.

Step 3: Give thanks to the LORD for it all because without the LORD there would be nothing, including us. And especially give thanks to the LORD for that which we prayed for that materialized, that came to be.  As preachers and theologians like to ask: “What if all you had today was what you thanked the LORD for yesterday?”

Step 4: Repeat.

Until tomorrow, let us all love well.