LOVE-LENT 2017 - THE WORD IN LENT #15

Be Calm, you are Loved!

Friday, Second week in Lent - 17th March, 2017
Gen 37:3-4,12-13,17-28; Mt 21:33-43,45-46

Come let us kill him - this is the common phrase for both the readings today. There are always persons and situations which are against us, no matter where or when. And life itself is full of such varied episodes - there are ups and there are downs, there are moments of exuberance and there are moments of dullness, there are moments of strength and there are moments of trials, there are moments of grace and there are moments of crisis... how we face them depends on the perspective we choose. 

If we choose to believe that we are loved - as did Joseph and as did Jesus - whether we are in situations of want or in situations of plenty, we would live with just one disposition: the disposition that the Word presents to us - Be calm; you are Loved! 

When we know and we are convinced that the Lord loves us all, then we can be calm. And the vice versa is true too - when we learn to be calm and surrender, we would see that the Lord loves us with an immense love and that we are called to recompense that love, pay back in fruits.

When we are not mindful of that fact - we get anxious and make irreparable mistakes. What matters is to be calm and see not only the fact that we are loved but also the fruit we need to bear, that is - our call to love.