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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.
God invites us all to live. He will provide everything we need for fruitfulness and security of life.
The virtue of humility reminds us that the ordinary and the everyday is often where God’s gifts shine most brightly.
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.
Jesus is never upset at sinners! He is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.
True humility is knowing so well who we are in God’s loving sight that nothing anyone says or does can shake us.
The Church has been leading us in a change of heart for three weeks. Hosea now presents us with some questions. Am I any closer to God than I was before? What’s the quality of my repentance?
