Fairness and Justice: a sense of God

WORD 2day: Tuesday, 12th week in Ordinary time

June 22, 2021: Genesis 13: 2, 5-18; Matthew 7: 6, 12-14

I was impressed by a child in the train during one of my trips. She had her younger brother with her and every time the mother was giving anything to her or buying something for her from the vendors, she instantly would turn to her younger brother as if asking her mother, what about him? The curious climax was, when she returned the biscuit packet that she was sharing with her brother, to her mother with just one biscuit remaining in it. When the mother asked her why she left just one biscuit behind there, she said there is only one, how we two will take it? The simplicity of that innocent mind...just blew me away. I began wondering where has this kind of a spirit gone, in the world today!

Selfishness and greed, jealousy and competition has become the order of the day. Hardly anyone wishes to do anything if that does not bring them dividends atleast in some measure or kind. Notice the way Abraham dealt with his brother Lot. And pay attention to the golden rule: doing what you would wish others do to you. These are narrow doors. Those won't be the kind of behaviour that you can expect the mainstream humanity to choose spontaneously, especially today. However, as disciples of the Lord, our choice has to be precisely this: a choice for fairness and justice, that would be the right sense of being a person of God.