How often do we fail to taste and see our Parent's goodness because we expect grace to be bigger or bolder? Bread and water for a weary prophet. The neighbor kid as incarnation. A simple cross. We do not think of God as ordinary, and that is a shame. For such thinking puts the Divine in a box, a pretty one perhaps but a box nonetheless, only to be experienced on special occasions. It leaves us blindly stumbling through life oblivious to the grace surrounding us, oblivious to the grace within us. So taste and see the goodness of your Lord. It is abundant. It is everywhere. And it is enough.
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Sunday, August 9, 2015
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
"Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, 'I have come down from heaven?'" When a mighty prophet speaks, you listen. But what about when it's the kid next door? It looks like God and Truth are rather ordinary after all. Are you disappointed?
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
John 6: 41-51
How often have we encountered God, only to pass on by because we didn't recognize her? We expect the Divine to have a certain grandeur and mystique. But the reality is that the Father is rather ordinary after all. How could we truly get to know him if she wasn't?
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