The Harvest: Curiosity or Care to Change?

Tuesday, 34th week in Ordinary time

November 27, 2018: Revelations 14:14-19; Luke 21:5-11

Harvest is joyful but it involves sickles and winnowing chaff. Harvest is a welcome end but anyway it's an end.  Harvest is the end of a process of growth but it is a moment when one shall be judged to be gathered or to be thrown away! 

It is the same with faith... that too is an harvest.  We keep growing.  All absurdities and adversities notwithstanding, we grow but it is upto that moment of reckoning when we shall be judged worthy or not,  for  the king who has chosen us to belong to him. But we are prone to think of that moment as something unconnected to the here and the now, as if it is to happen from nowhere, as if it is a magical event to be expected with curiosity. 

When will these things happen?  We are more interested in knowing when certain things will happen and curious about predictions and premonitions,  than understanding what is the right thing to be done here and now, and make the right moves in life at the right time. Mistakenly we postpone the necessary and crucial transformations in life for an opportune time which sometimes does not come at all or it gets too late by the time they come by.  

The month of November insists on the urgency that is involved in personal conversion and community dedication to growth and maturity in faith. And specially this week leading us to the season of advent gives us a better understanding of the end time spirituality that we are called to live in these times: not with curiosity but with care to change!

Mindful of the short time that we have, we have a calling to live: live our lives to the full, here and now.