Nothing is Impossible with God

In today's first  reading, Judges 13: 2-7, 24-25, an angel appears to the wife of Manoah, who was barren. The angel says to  her: "'Though you are barren and have had no children, yet you will conceive and bear a son....It is he who will begin the deliverance of Israel from the power of the Philistines....[T]he boy shall be consecrated to God from the womb, until the day of his death'....The boy grew up and the Lord blessed him; the Spirit of the Lord  stirred him."

Nothing is impossible with God then or now! Like with the son of the woman in today's Scriptures, you and I are God's handmaidens/sons.  We have been sent to this world with a mission that no one else will carry out. If you and I do not carry out the mission for which we were sent, that mission remains unfulfilled.  We may not have been consecrated to God from the womb, but we were consecrated to God in our baptisms. That anointing remains firm until our deaths.  We, like the son of this woman, are blessed. The Spirit of the Lord stirs us. Do we listen? Do we do what the Spirit of the Lord is nudging us to do?

Lord, have mercy on us when we fail to heed the Spirit's stirrings!