God sees you!

WORD 2day: Saturday, 9th week in Ordinary time

June 10, 2023: Tobit 12: 1, 5-15, 20; Mark 12: 38-44

St. John Bosco, a great apostle of the young in devising his method of working with the young, used what his mother Margaret taught him always at home when he was a boy: 'God Sees You,' she used to often repeat. Don Bosco later, in the Oratory, while living with those street kids and rest of the ruffian friends of his, wrote this truth in prominent places and instilled that feeling in his boys: God sees you!

The readings today seem to hint at this truth and call our attention to living our life conscientiously. The widow never realised that Jesus was looking at her or that he was praising her act in front of his disciples. But Jesus saw her, saw what she did, and more than that, saw what she was - the mind and the heart behind those 2 pences that were dropped in the box. Tobit, or even Tobiah, did not realise that the one who accompanied on the way was the Angel of God, the hand of God, the extension of God's presence. But God was there looking at everything that they were going through and the way they were living their life.

It is not pleasing the eyes of those around us, establishing a name among our fellow beings, publicising our goodness and generosity and things of that sort that will give us true and lasting happiness. It is only the watchful and undeceived eyes of God that see us, that will grant us meaning in life. 

It is a beautiful childlike spirituality, isn't it, to live mindful of the fact that God Sees You!