The cares and difficulties of daily life can have tremendous spiritual value IF we refuse to worry and entrust them all to God.
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Consecrating oneself to Jesus through Mary represents the crowning of Marian devotion. There are two principle actions from our side that help make Consecration to Mary so powerful. One is the active prayer life we undertake, the other is the surrendering of all our cares to Jesus and Mary as a way of proclaiming our trust.
The Gospels are full of stories where Jesus stresses the importance of having trust. Remember when Jesus walked across the water to meet the apostles in their boat and Peter says, “Jesus, if it really is you, tell me to come to you across the water.” Jesus answers, “Come!” So Peter steps out of the boat and begins to walk on the water, but as soon as he takes his eyes off Jesus and starts to focus on the wind, he begins to sink. Jesus recues him saying, “Man of little faith, why did you doubt!”
One reason Marian consecration has such great power is because it includes surrendering all our cares to Jesus and Mary. So our cares, instead of being a source of stress and worry, now become opportunities for ‘declarations of trust’! Each little surrender and refusal to worry, opens portals for huge amounts of grace to flow, through Mary’s powerful intercession. Each time we refuse to worry about our ‘storm’, we proclaim our trust and it is this very trust that allows the enormous power of Marian Consecration to flow into our lives.
