+ Our gospel passage today challenges us to use
the gifts, graces and spiritual talents that we are given at our baptisms,
confirmations and ordinations to go out into the mainstreams of our families,
friends and places of school or work and make a positive difference in how we
can be for others what they might need to make their days better, their work
lighter, and their griefs, pains and illnesses redemptive!
We are each given, as the
parable tells us, gifts that suit us – and so some get more, some get less. The
point is that each gets at least one! And no matter the amount, we are to use
it, use them, with all our minds, our hearts and our souls for the good of others.
In essence, it means that WE RECEIVE NOTHING FOR OURSELVES – just
as Jesus received nothing, no part of his earthly body, mind or spirit for himself
– it was all for us and for our salvation. And he made that decision for us
constantly, even though we were enemies of himself and his Father in heaven.
Our lives are not our own! In
a me me me obsessed culture, we certainly find great difficulty in wrapping
this concept around our minds – but wrap it we must. Because if we don’t we really be cast out into the darkness,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
It
is never too late, for any of us who are baptized, confirmed and ordained to do
the right thing for the sake of others – especially when we can see
or sense that something is not as it should be – in matters grave and small. We
must speak up, and act out in appropriate and constructive ways to make things
right!
My brothers and sisters, It’s
all about LOVE…the Love which IS God…the Love which God shares….the Love that
we will be accountable for spending or not spending!
“I
give you a new commandment: love one another as I have loved you. “
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