Treasures and Pressures
Friday, 11th week in Ordinary Time
2 Kgs 11: 1-4,9-18,20; Mt 6: 19-23
We hear of people all stressed and pressurised today - but for what? Wealth, earning, spending, adding to comforts, having things that they wish to have, hoarding bank balances and shares...all for what? To die early and leave behind everything? I heard recently someone sharing this wit, or rather wisdom: at the funeral of a wealthy woman, there were two of her close friends whispering to each other. "How much really has she left behind?" The other replied, "everything!" That is life.
Athalia worked her way up only to be put to the sword in an unceremonious manner! We offer our life, our relationships, our simple joys and peaceful mind as a sacrifice at that the altar of wealth and position, only to realise we have lost everything in the craze of hoarding wealth.The world today has to take note of this, for it is already too, too late!