Sr Kateri needed to go to St Vincent Hospital for her medical ct scan. Nothing serious about her. It's only part of her regular monthly follow-up check-up.
From the hospital, we proceeded to Studio X- the community gift shop's web designer and had some time with its owner-manager Nancy for some important discussions with our plan to re-design the whole gift shop web. We ended the discussions and brainstorming just past twelve and so we went to a nearest restaurant for our late lunch. We went back to the monastery after lunch and i had to drive her in going back from Bode's store in Abiquiu and back to the monastery.
After taking a break from posting meditations here, and after going through the difficult days that passed by, I am back again to my bring you some food for thoughts that you may bring and pack as the day unfolds and finally ends with you; that is, posting the day's Gospel and my reflections .... so my friends, here we go.Today, the Gospel message from Luke 13: 22 - 30 is giving us a proof of the wisdom and brilliance of Jesus Christ.
He is asked the question, " are there many who will be saved?"
If Jesus answered there would be few who would be saved, then many of us would certainly get disappointed and discouraged. We would say, "I am not good enough. No matter effort I would exert, I will still be damned anyway, so I may just as well enjoy and endure my damnation."
ON the contrary, If Jesus said that many will be saved, then most probably, many of us will be presumptuously proud.
We would then say, "I am not that very bad. I think I am gonna be included in that number. I am not that wicked and so, I don't have to be scared because I will certainly and surely be included."
But the Lord did not say, "yes, there are many." nor "no, there are'nt many."
Rather, Jesus simply said, "do your best and I will take care of the rest."
That is what I am trying to say to you that the Lord is full of wisdom and brilliance. He delivers us from presumptuous pride and as well as from discouragement and despair from our repeated mistakes and flaws we commit in our lives.
Then after the Lord has delivered us from both, He leads us into self-responsibility.
And that's where we usually and constantly fall short. Without self- responsibility, we never feel accountable to ourselves simply because we are not that ready to take the responsibility for ourselves: for what we do with our present condition; for what we say to ourselves in our daily encounters with life.
We feel and think: "everybody is at fault except me. The whole situation is bad not because of me, but because of all of you."
Now, the Lord is asking us to once and for all, take the responsibility and be accountable for ourselves. Let's do our best and He will take care of the rest. God will never spoon feed us. God will not give us salvation on a silver spoon and platter. We must do our share. He is counting on us and with His loving mercy and grace, we will make it work so that one day, when we woke up one morning, we can say: I have succeeded and reached my goal!
Happy Wednesday to all of you...and have a great Halloween night.
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