Last Sunday, I arrived for the 11:30 a.m. Mass early and sat in my car saying my daily rosary. When I finished, I placed the rosary over the rearview mirror in front of me as this is the place where I keep it and then began to recite the other prayers that I say every morning.

You might recall that last Saturday was a beautiful spring day with sunshine and temperatures in the high 70s. You might also recall that Sunday was damp and much colder with intermittent showers.

As I was saying my prayers, I looked straight ahead and slowly the windshield became covered with raindrops obscuring the view of the church bell tower, church, and school. I could see vague silhouettes of these structures but basically the only thing that looked clear was the cross from my rosary that hung on the rearview mirror in front of me.

I then smiled.

Isn’t this like life, I said to myself. As we look forward on our life journeys, the way we are headed can look obscure at time with such things as random crimes and shootings, the war in Ukraine, threatened global conflicts elsewhere, the worries about the economy, perhaps worry about one’s health or the health of loved ones, or maybe the uncertainty of what may happen in the next presidential election.

I have had friends and loved ones ask me what is happening in our world. Why are so many things happening now that cause us to worry?

But, the answer to such confusion, such uncertainty, and the inability to see clearly what lies ahead, is our loving Jesus.

He brings clarity to what is and hope for what can be. Embrace Jesus. Pray to Him. He will bring light to our darkness and clear that which is obscured.

The noun, rumination, means a deep considered thought about something.

-By Deacon Tom Gryzbek