Change is not something that happens easily. It is tough to change towns, schools, or work places. It is hard to face the change in life when you have to come to terms with the death of a loved one. I am sure that things were tough for Saint John the Baptist's disciples when they realized that the Messiah had finally arrived. We have a change of the guard going on, but these disciples had to trust inside of the change that was to take place within their lives.
Today we celebrate Saint John of the Cross who challenges each of us to trust in change. Through his writings he has left us poems which challenge us to accept change within our hearts, so that we may be more receptive of God's love.
Saint John of the Cross realized how tough the acceptance of change is first hand. He got together with Saint Teresa of Avila and began to reform the Carmelite Order that he was a part of. These monks did not accept this change and so they captured Saint John of the Cross, beat him, and threw him into prison. It was from the darkness of this small lonesome cell that he would come into contact with the light. From a small window light would come into his cell and he would write his spiritual poems. He began to draw closer and closer into this light until he had left the darkness behind and was in union with God.
May we allow Saint John of the Cross to intercede for us today, so that we may leave the darkness of sin behind and begin to accept the change needed in our life that will bring us into union with the light of God.
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