Words of Hope

A dear friend told me about this book,  Padre Pio's Words of Hope.  If there are two books I need to pack and bring with me anywhere, it is The Bible and this book! It is a beautiful devotional as you can just open up to any of the 150 meditations  and ponder the scripture citations and words of wisdom and of hope of Padre Pio's quotes taken from Padre Pio  of Pietrelcina's Letters Volumes I, II, and III.

Here is an excerpt taken from meditation 41 : Family: Your Boat

Mark 4:37-39: "...waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he (Jesus) was...asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him,"...do you not care that we are perishing?"

When troubles whip at our family, God sometimes seems to sleep, and I want to give up, abandon ship.


Padre Pio's assurance: "...stay in the boat in which our Lord has placed you, and let the storm come. You will not perish. It appears to you that Jesus is sleeping, but let it be so.  Don't you know that if he sleeps, his heart vigilantly watches over you?  Let him sleep, but at the right time, he will awaken to restore your calm."