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More and more people work at occupations that make few physical demands. While there will always be jobs that involve manual labor, not everyone can enjoy the satisfaction that comes with seeing a concrete result from physical work.
Not everyone wants to be well. Too often we become invested in our own weakness, our own sickness. It seems we would rather complain than deal with the responsibility of being healed.
In this week’s Gospel, Jesus uses the example of a grain of wheat to remind us how to live our best life.
Francis strenuously denied the suggestions that he was a saint. He kept hidden the marks of the stigmata. He refused to let people attribute miracles to him.
In today’s reading from Isaiah, God promises his people a new beginning. After our cleansing, after the self-gift of Jesus, comes new life.
We see light instead of darkness, and in that light we discover a side of ourselves that we thought we had lost. We look with new eyes on the people around us and see how they, too, are children of God.
True humility is knowing so well who we are in God’s loving sight that nothing anyone says or does can shake us.
Francis discovered the hidden secret to inner peace: Don’t react. It doesn’t make the insults OK.
We have so much in our lives that we feel we need to defend. It can lead us to live in constant fear.
A peaceful attitude can go a long way toward living the message of the Gospel. If we think before we speak or act, we will save ourselves and others a great deal of misunderstanding and heartache.
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