The Devastation Notwithstanding
Saturday, 12th week in Ordinary Time
Lam 2: 2, 10-14, 18-19; Mat 8: 5-17
Destruction, devastation, desecration, disease and death bed...these are the situations elaborated in the Word but alongside there is an insistence on mercy, healing, forgiveness, faith and trust! This is what we need to keep in our mind- all the possible devastation notwithstanding, the Lord is with us, for us and the Lord loves us. What can separate us from the love of God, St Paul would question in his letter to the Romans (8:38,39). Absolutely nothing can separate us from the Love of God that is poured on us through Jesus Christ, nothing except our own obstinacy! Let's beware!