"Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Matthew 5:48)

Thursday, January 15, 2026

**Sensible Asking*

         In today's Gospel reading from Mark 1, a leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, "If you wish, you can make me clean." Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched the leper, and said to him, "I do will it. Be made clean." The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean. "If you wish . . ." is a good way for us to begin asking the Lord to do something for us. You are not forcing him, and he may very well say "I will do it" to you. Basically, you don't refrain from asking for a miracle, but you'll always follow his will.

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