In faith, towards the real homeland...

WORD 2day: Saturday, 3rd week in Ordinary time

January 30, 2021: Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19; Mark 4: 35-41

Life on earth, though short, is filled with joys and sorrows, hopes and anxieties, expectations and disappointments, desires and disillusionments - but what can keep us going is the promise of a homeland, a homeland beyond all imagination - a land of repose and total serenity, a land of calmness and tranqulity. Faith alone can help us see this homeland and arrive therein. 

The Gospel presents to us both the realities of the present life of agitation and commotion and the eternal homeland of peace and calm! The experience of disciples on the boat is highly illustrative of our life and the life to come. But there is one dimension to be noted well... in both the realities the Lord is with us! While in the storm of events, the Lord was there...only that they realised the potency of the presence of the Lord very late. Don't you have faith, asks the Lord!

Faith makes us see the Lord present with us and not just that, it helps us see also what exactly the Lord can do for us. Remaining calm in moments of crisis, because we have committed ourselves to the power of the Almighty, can take us a long long way, right to the heavenly homeland, of peace, calm, joy and hope. All that we need to do is recognise the presence of the Lord in faith! 

In faith, we shall journey on, come what may, towards the real homeland, with the Lord all along!