Small or Big - Progress is the Key!

WORD 2day: Saturday, 21st week in Ordinary Time

September 2, 2023 - 1 Thessalonians 4: 9-11; Matthew 25: 14-30

Spiritual Masters broadly agree on one maxim that they often repeat: in spiritual life not to progress is to regress. It is indeed true for any Christian call - complacency and lethargy are spiritual enemies that we have to fight constantly. They lead to dangers ranging from a simple spiritual stagnation to a serious self righteousness. That does not mean that we are forced to make giant leaps everyday in our spiritual journey. That would be an unreasonable burden!

Apart from the fact that Spiritual itineraries are made of tiny little steps in progression, there can be falls even frequent, slips and slides, dumps and accidents galore - but these do not matter so much to God as our willingness to rise and follow, our decision to remain firm with the original response, our determination to persevere incessantly. 

It does not matter whether we are fast or not; it does not matter we make tremendous changes or not, what matters is that we progress. Within the capacity that we are given with, within the circumstances that I find myself in, I should be able to account to myself a progress that I make from time to time. Then I am well on the right journey.

Finally, the message today is keep walking, mind your steps, whether they are small or big that is not what matters because ultimately, progress is the key!