I think
if we all stop and think about our lives we can look at moments when we to
missed opportunities. Perhaps we missed an opportunity to help another person,
we missed an opportunity to be a compassionate friend, we missed an opportunity
to help someone with their struggles or we missed a moment when God was truly
present in our life. In looking back at our life we probably recognize many
opportunities that we missed.
Now in
looking back at our life we have two choices; we can choice to learn from our
missed opportunities or not. In the Gospel today the towns of Chorazin,
Bethsaida and Capernaum chose not to learn from their missed opportunities.
These three towns no longer exist; there are just piles of rocks, archeological
digs sitting in the hot sun waiting for people to come and walk through them.
There is no life in any of these towns today.
Perhaps
we might take on the challenge of the Gospel today by learning from our
encounters with God rather than not learning from them and finding ourselves
like Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum today.
Thus, our
challenge today is to ask ourselves if we as individuals, as families, as
communities, as Church, as cities, as nations, as a culture and society are
willing to learn from our mistakes, our missed opportunities? If we chose not
to our fate will be like the fate of the three towns in the Gospel. What choice
will we make?
Have a
great Tuesday everyone!
Daily
Prayer:
Loving God, strengthen us with the power to love through your Spirit in our
inner most being. Fill our hearts with your presence and please do not leave us
even when we seem to choose to go our own way. Help us to learn from our
mistakes and missed opportunities so that we might grasp fully how wide and
long and high and deep your love is for us. Above all, enable us to know this
love that surpasses all knowledge so that we may share it with others. Amen!
A
Runner’s Thoughts: Shakespeare once wrote, “Now bid me run, and I will strive
with things impossible.” Jesus said, “…with God all things are possible.” Thus
if we run with God then as we strive with things impossible they will become
possible! Have a great run today and stay cool.
Daily
Blessing: Tuesday
blessings and greetings to everyone! It looks to be another nice day here in
Pelham, I hope the same is true by you. It will be another day of paperwork for
me as I try to clear my desk of things needing to be done so that I can hit the
road later this week. I hope your Tuesday has started off well and that you are
in for a great day wherever you are.
My prayer
of blessing today is that your day will be rich in the grace and joy of the presence
of God. That you will encounter the grace you need to navigate through this day
successfully and peacefully. That you will be blessed with a joyful heart that
you will share with everyone you meet and that you will encounter the presence
of God throughout your day helping you to have the confidence that your
presence in the world today is a gift to everyone you meet and to us all!
Blessings upon all today and stay cool! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr. Paul
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