With open eyes...

WORD 2day: Wednesday, 13th week in Ordinary time

July 5, 2023: Genesis 21: 5, 8-20a; Matthew 8: 28-34

Hagar had almost given up. For her it was all over. She found no scope of living on and no chance of surviving that desertedness. She had cried enough, she thought. All of a sudden she finds a well, the source of her life. All that while the well was just round the corner. She was so filled with self pity that she was not able to see the ample opportunity just there for hers to take. All that God did was open her eyes that she may see the well. 

However, finally she does see unlike the people of Gerasene who never saw till the end, who it was that had entered their village. Their self pity of having lost their swine in thousands blinded their eyes from perceiving the great and wonderful blessings that Jesus had in store for them. What a great miss it was, they asked Jesus to leave! 

At times, for the sake of our self pity, due to our self indulgence, and for the fear of losing something so insignificant, we lose God, or rather we reject God. Just like the persons we meet in the Word today, if only we saw who we are rejecting; if only we beheld the blessings that choosing God would bring into our lives, if only we lived our lives with our eyes open... we shall be truly blessed.