WORD 2day: Saturday, 25th week in Ordinary time
September 26, 2020: Ecclesiasticus 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 anyone 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).
But that kind of a life, lived in reaching out, doing good and spending oneself to the full, might invite criticism, jealousy, opposition, persecution and even crucifixion! But what matters is to do the will of God, and do it willingly.
There was a video few years ago doing the rounds, shot live and uploaded by someone - a video of a boy who was eaten by a white tiger, in a zoo. All that time that the boy was going through the trauma of hanging between life and death, caught in the confinement set apart for the tiger. But what did the crowd do? What did the officials do? Yes, there was a crowd there, screaming and going mad, and a few among them recording it on their cell phones... video graphing what...the boy being torn into pieces? What did they really 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. It can really traumatise a sensitive conscience looking at that video; but imagine the trauma that boy would have gone through!
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!