October 21, 2026 // Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s First Reading: Ephesians 3:2-12

Reflect on the Word // 

“Frustration is the price we pay for wisdom.” 

These words were from an instructor of a leadership course at work, and they still follow me around to this day. As someone who tries to understand right and wrong very clearly, I often struggle with the weight and duty of seeing this wisdom and acting accordingly. At work, in my personal life, in my relationships, everywhere—I get frustrated that others don’t see choices and decisions the way I do.

Why doesn’t anyone else understand it this way?

In today’s First Reading, Saint Paul shares that he too was blessed with action-driven wisdom all those years ago: “You have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for your benefit, namely, that the mystery was made known to me by revelation” (Ephesians 3:2-3). The spiritual knowledge revealed to Paul wasn’t only for him—it was also for those around him to be impacted by that gift of the Holy Spirit. The disciple goes on, “Of this I became a minister [. . .] so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church” (Ephesians 3:7, 10).

Saint Paul’s letter empowered me: Maybe the things I get to know and see are for the benefit of others too, and frustration may just be the tuition we pay for learning and doing extraordinary things. Like my instructor, and Saint Paul in his letters to the Ephesians, we should be grateful for the things revealed to us and see the goodness behind them and their subsequent call for action. What a gift—that God would trust us with His knowledge and that we would do good with it!

Sister, take some time today to pray about what you see clearly, where your Holy Spirit-gifted wisdom leads you, and discern what God may be asking you to do with that unique perspective you have been blessed with.

Relate to the Lord // Write down the fruit of this prayer today and what it seems God is asking you to do. Ask for the wisdom to discern and the grace to accomplish it.