4th November, 2013
Calculations of gain and loss, returns and rewards make an action limited to these considerations. Jesus, not only taught us a consideration different from these, but lived it himself and challenges us to live by it. The consideration is -'what God wants of me here and now'! Adopting that as my decisive criterion in life, requires of me two important attitudes: the first reading speaks of the first of the attitudes - it is, an immeasurable awe and absolute entrustment to the Wisdom of God; secondly - placing others, especially the weak, the poor, the least and the last, the needy as the center of my perspective on life, not looking at my own selfish and egoistic ends. When these two become my attitudes, I can worthily say as St. Paul says in the reading today: 'From God and through God and to God are all things. To God be glory for ever. Amen.'