Really Knowing...

WORD 2day: Monday, 19th week in Ordinary time

August 8, 2022: Ezekiel 1: 2-5,24-28; Matthew 17: 22-27

Growing in Faith is not merely growing in knowledge of something - knowing more about scriptures, knowing more about religion, knowing more about values etc. It is much greater than that but one of the most fundamental requirement is knowing: knowing who oneself is! That self knowledge and self definition determines much of one's choices! 

The Word today reminds us of the true nature and glory that is embedded in our very beings, which we very often forget, neglect and reject. When we do not realise the glory that is within, we go in search of very many other replacements, which can in no way fulfill our lives.

Added to that fact, the way I understand myself affects the way I look at others. The way I look at others determines the way that I relate to them. The way I relate to the others is plainly expressive of the kind of concept I have of God. For instance, when we look at others as strangers and foreigners then we expect that they deserve every thing that we do for them. When we look at the other always in communion with ourselves, all that we do for them we actually do for ourselves. And, looking at the other as unconnected from me puts my very belief in One God to question. 

It is high time we look at everything being one whole, connected to each other - that is true Spirituality!