March 20, 2025 // Thursday of the Second Week of Lent
Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
Reflect on the Word //
Confession: The Responsorial Psalms used to be my least favorite part of the Mass. I didn’t like the musical settings, didn’t appreciate the repetition, and certainly didn’t grasp the riches in the words.
I couldn’t hear the Lord’s voice for me in the Psalms.
Of course He was always speaking, gently and patiently pouring His love over me week in and week out. All those years I spent daydreaming at Mass, I didn’t even notice how He tenderly planted seeds in my heart, doing hidden work to form me.
“Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked [. . .] But delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on his law day and night” (Psalm 1:1-2).
I’m still prone to distracted thoughts in my adulthood, but living in imitation of the “blessed man” of Psalm 1 keeps me focused on “what is above, where Christ is” (Colossians 3:1).
The Lord isn’t asking me to meditate on His law in order to become an academic expert, nor has He invited me into a religious community (I’m married with children). The invitation, rather, is to make knowledge of God and His law a part of my life, to let it form me from the inside out as I grow more into the woman God made me to be.
In whatever way our daily lives take shape—with academics, work, caring for family—we can delight in God’s law and meditate on it. It can be as simple as choosing one verse to ponder, allowing those words to root in our souls.
Our lives can be changed with this simple habit.
This is why we’re blessed to meditate upon the law day and night, especially with the Psalms. We’re blessed because the Lord speaks love and life into our souls. He renews our true identity as His beloved daughters, made imago Dei—in the image of God. The Lord invites us to turn fully to Him, because our restless hearts will find their delight and rest in Him alone.
Relate to the Lord // (Re)Read today’s Psalm. What verse will you meditate on today?
Gina Fensterer is a wife of 20 years and mother of six children. She is passionate about finding God in the ordinary moments of her vocation. She loves Adoration, praying with Scripture, long morning walks, and fitness. Gina homeschools her school-age children and runs a small shop with products designed to encourage women seeking holiness in their ordinary lives. She was a contributing author to And Hay Became Holy and our children's devotional prayer book called Rise Up. Find out more about her here.
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