Blessed are you if you do it

Grace: of humilty - to begin again
Scripture: Acts 13:13-25 and John 13:16-20

"Go forth from the quiet of contemplation and courageously bear witness to my truth." (God to St. Catherine of Siena - quoted in Magnificat, p. 364)

"God loves us as we are, with our defects too, when we struggle to overcome them, and he counts on time and grace to change us...
Those who zealously keep a list of grudges show themselves to be very narrow-minded. Such poor wretches are impossible to live with. True charity neither keeps account of the necessary services it renders all the time, nor takes note of the effonteries it has to put up with. 'Omnia suffert' - it endures all things.
If we lack humility we will tend to draw up our list of small grudges which, despite being small, take away our peace with God, waste a lot of energy and make us incapable of undertaking the great plans Our Lord has in mind each day for those close to him. The heart of the humble person is set on God and is thus filled with joy, becoming as it were, less vulnerable. It doesn't matter to him what people say or might have said. He forgets immediately, and doesn't give too much consideration to the humiliations which every man or woman experiences in one way or another in the course of their daily lives.

Such simplicity and humility, not getting complicated when pride suggests our reputation is being maligned, leaving aside possible grudges, gives us the ability to begin again when we have been cowardly or have failed. We see Mark take up his work immediately again with Barnabus after the cowardice and fatigue of the first journey -- ready this time to be unconditionally faithful" --from In Conversation with God, vol. 2 p. 450