Daily Thoughts: In today’s
Gospel (Matthew 1: 1-17), we are reminded that Jesus was part of the great
human family. A family made up of saints and sinners and everything in between.
It might seem tedious to read this long list of names many of whom we know
nothing about and some that seem very familiar. I use to get so nervous when
Matthew’s or Luke’s genealogy would appear as the Gospel, but over the years I
began to feel comfortable with it and now I even look forward to proclaiming
this Gospel. I guess I have grown familiar with the case of characters!
Isn’t that what life is about growing
accustom to life. Seeing people and things differently, telling the stories
that reminds us who we are and from where we have come. Remembering the
characters good and bad that have made up our lives and molded us into the
people we are today.
When we read or hear the genealogy of
Christ whether from Matthew or Luke we are reminded that even though Jesus is
God, he is also human, also part of this great human family and the characters,
the women and men, who believed, who struggled, said yes and sometimes no, who
embraced a relationship with God and sometimes didn’t, who lived life making it
possible for Jesus to come into this world to embrace us with his love.
Here’s to the characters in all of our
lives. Here’s to the characters of the human family. Here’s to Joseph and Mary
the last in the story today who said yes that we might celebrate Jesus the
Christ!
Have a great Wednesday everyone!
Daily Prayer: Loving Jesus,
you often held up a child and told us that children are worthy of blessing in
your Kingdom and an example to us of how to grow in wonder and awe of people,
places and things. Help us to return to the heart of a child so that we might
proclaim your Kingdom with minds and hearts full of wonder and awe! Amen.
(Adapted from a prayer by Fr. Michael Greene, C.P.)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “If you always
put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over
into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality,
into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must
not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
(Bruce Lee) For Mary and Joseph there were no limits. Like running there
are no limits in our faith. We must always remember nothing is impossible with
God. Perhaps in life, in our journey of faith and in running we need to always
remember this.
Daily Blessing: Happy
Wednesday, Hump Day everyone! We might say that today is “Hump Day” for December
in a little over one week we will be celebrating Christmas So today we begin
the downhill roll to Christmas and the New Year!
The sun is out and they say it will be
with us for the next couple of day and 50 is the target temperature for today!
It is always nice to see the sun. It makes winter a little more tolerable. I
hope your day has begun well and that it will be a good day throughout.
In the spirit of our readings today I
pray that God will bless us with a spirit of wisdom today so that we can
understand the “dream” that God has for us and that we will be blessed with the
grace to live out that dream! May God gift us with compassion and generosity
today so that we might bring Emmanuel, God with us, wherever we go and to
whomever we meet. May we always be a family, a Church, a faith community bound
together by a dream of justice, forgiveness, reconciliation and love. Blessing
to all today and always! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul
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