THE WORD IN LENT: Saturday after Ash Wednesday
February 29, 2020: Isaiah 58: 9-14; Luke 5: 27-32
Point for Dialogue #3: the Real or the Present
The Lord invites us to return to the wholeness, with which the Lord created us. The image and likeness of God, the fullness of life and happiness that the Lord is, the glory and the brilliance that reside in God, the love and forgiveness that mark the nature of God - this is what we are called to return to.
In fact, the Lord wants to initiate a dialogue between what we truly are and what we have made ourselves into. It becomes a tough call, not merely because the dialogue is difficult, but because we are so convinced that we are what we have made ourselves into: our weaknesses, our failures, our selfishness and so on. There is of course a stand off here between the real and the present - the really real and what we are at present!
Look at the world around. Cold wars and coups, cross border terrorism and international crisis, fanaticism under various garbs and the resultant polarisation of societies, the luxurious spoils of the first world and the empty crying stomachs of the unfortunate sections of the globe... the disparities and the disdain - they arise from the fact that we have lost our original innocence and glory, and think that this is what human nature is all about.
The prophetic invitation today is to realise our original glory, and return to that glory of oneness, of unity, of brotherhood and sisterhood, of love, of mutual concern and of true peace. Let us return to our original glory, the glory of the Children of God.
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