190th Meditation
“In the daytime God sends his faithful love, and even at night; the song it inspires in me is a prayer to my living God” (Ps 42:9).
An attentive soul always waits for the Lord and experiences His help in the middle of the day, when it has to perform all the tasks entrusted to it. When she accepts God’s goodness, which always accompanies her like a warm ray of the “rising Sun from on high”, our Father makes her capable of everything. In this way, every day becomes an opportunity for God to pour out His goodness on this world through our daily ministry.
But also the night becomes day for the soul, when she rings out “the prayer to her living God”. Nothing sheds so much light on this world, even in its darkest hours, as those moments when a soul rises in praise of God and extols the goodness of its Heavenly Father. The whole cosmos must hear it! The soul joins the choirs of angels and all creatures who praise God without ceasing.
If the day shines with good works and the night is transfigured by love, God can bestow His healing Presence upon all men and seek again and again the ways to reach the hearts of His children. These are the spiritual places through which the Father communicates His grace and His help to man.
The ever-open door for all people is the Son of God, who brought light into the darkness: “Light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it” (Jn 1:5). In Jesus, even the darkest night becomes as clear as the day (cf. Ps 139:12). Not even the darkness of sin can resist His love, if only the soul accepts the “hour of grace” offered to it.
Every soul that realises what the verse of this psalm proposes to us, cooperates in the plan of our Heavenly Father to bring people back home. She herself becomes the day:
“You are light for the world. A city built on a hill-top cannot be hidden” (Mt 5:14).