Live, Love and Find God

Saturday, 25th week in Ordinary time

29th September, 2018: Eccl 11:9 -12: 8; Lk 9: 43b-45 

Life is short and life is limited, but it offers ample opportunity to do things that are remarkable. It never forces anyone, leaving far behind every one who complains of a life of boredom and monotony. For a Christian, life cannot be boring because he or she has a life task to accomplish and daily directions to carry out, from the Lord. That is why St. Paul would write saying, "do not grow weary of doing right" (2 Thess 3:13). It might invite criticism, jealousy, opposition, persecution and even crucifixion! But what matters is to do the will of God, and do it willingly. 

A few years ago I happened to see a video uploaded by someone, of a boy who fell into the enclosure of a tiger and was eaten by the white tiger, in a zoo in India. Such a long time that the boy was going through the trauma of hanging between life and death, in the jaws of that tiger! What did the crowd do? What did the officials do? There was certainly a crowd there, screaming and going mad, and a few among them recording it on their cell phones. But what did they do to save that boy? It was a crucial time, a crucial issue of life and death, a crucial moment of taking decisions and making choices. In fact I myself was traumatised looking at that video; imagine the trauma that boy would have gone through!

This is what happens many a time - we stand by and pass comments, judgments, critiques and suggestions while a group of people suffer till they are no more! One thing is helplessness but another unpardonable attitude is indifference, which makes life so inhuman. 

Life is short and life is limited; let's live it to the full, let us do all the good that we can to every one around. Let us not waste our life in envying, calumniating, gossiping, judging and spreading hate! Let us live to the full, love each other and experience God close to us!