only God remembers forever- 4th week lent wednesday

Today our first reading from the book of Isaiah speaks of God’s love as a mother’s love.  It is a mother’s love because it is a love that can never forget her children.  And yet even if what is thought an impossibility happens, even if a mother forgets, God will never forget.

We all desire a love that can never forget.  We feel hurt when we are forgotten, especially when we are forgotten by the people we thought love us.  We feel insecure when little by little we are no longer accorded the limelight we had before.  We feel spent when we are no longer as popular as we had been.  We feel deserted perhaps because we are no longer received as enthusiastically as were before.People have forgotten us. 

Perhaps this is part of our growing up, or more specifically, this is part of our growing old, this is part of retirement.  How does it feel to be a Benedict in the shadow of Francis and to be so alive as to consciously experience it?

Perhaps this is something we need to go through; to be secure only in God and not in human adulation and attention; to be secure in the thought that only God remembers, God alone remembers and to feel that that is enough.