Let your light shine!
Monday, 25th week in Ordinary Time
Prov 3: 27-35; Lk 18: 16-18
Be good, be just, be righteous...the Proverbs gives us a list of qualities of a just person who is acceptable in the eyes of the Lord. Be good, be a light, shine before the world invites the Gospel. Let your light shine, let it shine day in and day out, let it shine regardless of the people and the situations around.
We do like to be good, we do wish to shine our light before the world...but is it so in all circumstances?
Like the electric bulbs which gives only as long as they receive, we are good to others only as long as others are good to us; we are good to the world only as long as the world around is good to us.
Like the oil lamps that sustain their burning as long as what they received lasts. We decide to be good for a little longer, anyway it lasts just as long as our memory of good done to us lasts.
Consider the candle, which is initiated into burning and shining. It keeps burning as long as it exists, without expecting anything from outside! This is our call: to shine, regardless of what others do to us. Be good inspite of the evil that may rest around you. Be Godly, however ungodly the world around you gets!