Seeing and Hearing - Lightening and Thunder!
Thursday, 16th week in Ordinary Time
Exo 19: 1-2,9-11,16-20; Mt 13: 10-17
Happy are your eyes for they see what they see; happy are your ears for they hear what they hear! Israel encountered the Lord, just as Moses did. Moses saw God, the people saw the lightening; Moses heard the Lord speak, the people heard the peals of thunder. They were frightened to the core, while Moses was not. Seeing and hearing are two great faculties that the Lord has given us!
Even spiritually seeing and hearing are wondrous gifts of God. God wishes that we may see: but do we look at God's presence as an illumination of life and its meaning or merely as fearsome lightening? God speaks that we may hear: but do we hear those words or only a noisy thunder? It is not destroying the traditions that Jesus is intent on, but finding the right rationale behind so many things that we see and hear.
Are we ready to meet the Lord, to see and to hear...- not out of fear, but in awe, respect and love!