Saturday June 21, 2025

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No one can serve two masters…. You will be devoted to one and despise the other…. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life…. Your heavenly Father knows what you need. Seek first the Kingdom of God. (From Matthew 6:24-34)

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Good News Reflection for:

Saturday of the 11th Week of Ordinary Time
June 21, 2025

Today’s Readings:

2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Psalm 34:10-13
Matthew 6:24-34
bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062125.cfm
USCCB Podcast of the Readings:
bible.usccb.org/podcasts/audio/daily-mass-reading-podcast-june-21-2025

Do not be afraid when things go wrong

“What next? When is my life going to get back to normal?” That’s a question I’ve been asking the Father for the past few years, ever since my mom was hospitalized in early 2022 and, while she was still recovering, my husband Ralph nearly died from low hemoglobin. Emergency surgery took care that, but a week after he came home, an infection sent him back. He picked up COVID and brought it home. We suffered only a mild case but then I get hit with post-covid fatigue so bad and for so long, being a caregiver for two beloved people took too much out of me.

By October, I had major, disabling back pains, and between me, my mother, and my husband, our health traumas and other problems (hurricanes, etc.), overlapped, and I had no time to rest. This series of sufferings culminated in the death of Ralph, in February of 2024, from ulcerative colitis that wouldn’t heal.

Back in April of 2022, in the middle of the night during an attack of insomnia, I had asked Abba Father to help His little girl get back to sleep. Just then I received a very clear vision: a very bright light — brighter than sunlight — coming through a portal. At first it brought to mind a sunrise, but I saw no landscape, no sun.

The light vibrated white with yellowish hues emanating further from the center. A long, pointed, black shadow projected from the lower left corner of this portal, as if something were blocking the light there. A few other shadowy areas seemed to block the light, but not so darkly.

I asked Abba what it meant. He said, “Dawn is near.” Little did I know that I still had years of major difficulties ahead of me.

The next morning during my prayer time, as I reflected on the meaning of the vision, the Holy Spirit explained it: “Though you’re enduring much exhausting suffering, it is nothing in comparison to My brightness and My goodness.” We are to rely on the goodness of the Lord no matter what shadows and darkness we see. We are to believe in that goodness as an unshakable truth.

In October of 2024, I finally got my back taken care of. But there remained one disc where spinal stenosis squeezed a nerve that regulates one of my leg muscles. More surgery ahead! Meanwhile, though confined to a wheelchair and crutches, dealing with pain every day, I pushed forward in the brightness of the Lord, continuing to serve Him because His goodness is an unshakable truth.

Blessings have been happening too; the brightness of a life of faith is a portal to God’s heart.

In June of 2021, Abba Father said to me (and it’s for you, too):

Do not be afraid when bad things happen, because I am a God of surprises and everything I do is good. I’m about to do things that you have not been able to imagine possible. I am the God of the impossible. Rejoice for I am coming to you. I am coming with great power and might and glory. I have heard your prayers and your cries. All whom you lift up to Me and every need that you’ve covered in prayer will benefit from My power and might and glory.

Keep praying. Your prayers matter. Increase your prayer life. I will not forget you or abandon you. I hold you close to My heart. You are in My protective love. Through prayer and My Holy Spirit, you will see and understand with great rejoicing the signs of My glory in your life.

Thank you, Father God!

© 2025 by Terry A. Modica

P.S., to understand Father God better, get my book on “The Father’s Heart” @ gnm.org/fathersheart

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