FROM ABOVE - A Perspective for Life

Tuesday, 2nd week of Eastertide

April 10, 2018: Acts 4: 32-37; Jn 3: 7B-15

The first Chrsitian Community gives us a challenging example today, a prophetic witness! Just imagine that to be the state of our parish communities, or our basic christian communities...or even the Religious Communities of Consecrated life... can this model be emulated today? It is easy to brush it aside, calling it an outdated model, or an impractical ideal, or a time proven failure! But the challenge remains.

Jesus provides the key to the challenge: live your life as if from above. We have received our life and everything in life as a gift from above. And when it is time for us to report back from where we come, we will go without anything in our hands. When we see things from above then, we would laugh at our folly as does the Lord now from heaven (see Ps 2:4). Just look at your life, even as you live it today, a little from above! You will understand how foolish we can be... with our attachments and avarice, jealousy and treachery, and every other inhumanity for the sake of things that do not matter at all!

The Holy Father has presented us with an exhortation today - exactly in these lines... to look at our life from above, from the point of view of the one who has given us the gift of life. If only we have the capacity to remain close to God in every way, how beautiful our life would be - is that not really the Reign of God!

The key is: live life as from above. Learn to look at life from above!