Curiosity or Courage to Change_

WORD 2day: Tuesday, 33rd week in Ordinary time

November 26, 2024: Revelation 14: 14-19 ; Luke 21: 5-11

When will these things happen?

We are more interested in knowing when certain things will happen and are curious about predictions and premonitions, foretellings and soothsayings, magics and myths - than understanding what is the right thing to be done and making the right moves in life, at the right time.

Curiosity is good, to an extent that it incites my interest to get to know things that I don't know. But it is not absolutely good or helpful, as it is always determined by its motivations. Some are curious about others; some about everything else other that what affects them. Some are curious, these days, to get to know things so that they can publish it first before the rest of the world - how many breaking news are merely results of curiosity with absolutely no respect to persons, their experiences and their feelings! It is not about the breaking news that comes live on the TV, but the breaking news that goes from our mouths to others' ears, those that go from our mobiles to others', those that are sent from our whatsapp pages and facebook pages to the rest of the world, without really feeling anything about what the person or persons involved are going through right then. Forget that dimension... what about what it does to me? Does that curiosity in anyway make me a person bit better than what I was before?

Curiosity is eagerness, craze to know! However, knowing alone is not sufficient. What do I do on the basis of what I know. Knowing God, hearing God's Word everyday, celebrating the sacred mysteries regularly... what do I see happening to me? What kind of growth does take place within me? Am I prepared to take decisions that are important, some times hard, and necessary?

Mistakenly, we postpone the necessary and crucial transformations in life for an 'opportune' time, which sometimes never comes at all or it gets too late by the time they come by. This week's Word insists on the urgency that is involved in personal conversion and community dedication to growth and maturity in faith. Marking the end of the liturgical year, this week leads us to the season of advent - inviting us to a better understanding of the end time spirituality that we are called to live in these times.

The sickles are already at the base of the tree... and the harvest is near! Mindful of the short time that we have, we have a calling to live: to live our lives to the full, here and now.