Just like a mist!

WORD 2day: Wednesday, 7th week in Ordinary time

February 23, 2022: James 4: 13-17;  Mark 9: 38-40

We are just like the mist; here we are now, and then we are gone! It would  be interesting to turn to the episode of the tower of babel in the book of Genesis... these human beings, if only they were eternal and had endless powers, the world would have been a much dangerous and treacherous place! In spite of being limited and conditioned, how much pride and ego rules our day! Pride and Egoism, are two enemies of simplicity of spirit. 

Pride, is considering oneself greater than the rest, with despise and sometimes even a sense of malice. It can lead to an harmful mentality that can range from looking down on the other, to killing the other! Pride is one of the deadliest of the feelings that can deprive humanity of its serenity and joy.

Egoism, is the tendency to look at everything from the point of view of one's own advantage. For those who are filled with it, no one exists who is more important than themselves. Me, mine and my own, these are the only categories that would make any sense to them. With this one makes himself or herself the world, and closes oneself from the other or the others!

Explained in such hard terms, these may seem some grave psychological problems, but the danger is that, they can be found in each and everyone of us - what differs is the levels of it and the way we are aware and responsible about it. The Word invites us today to make a serious examination of consicience in the presence of the Lord, and see how much of pride and egoism, we have permitted within our hearts. 

May the Spirit of the Lord help us to understand the futility of these tendencies, because we are just like a mist, here today and gone tomorrow.