Tuesday of Week 2 in Ordinary Time
Saint Antony, Abbot
Hebrews 6:10-20
Faith and patience…that is what I
am hearing. Keep faith and be
patient! And…God is not beyond
‘oath-swearing’ if that will make us feel a little better. As a parent I have done my share of
oath-swearing. It has back-fired a time
or two. Not so for God. God’s promises will not go unfulfilled.
In my world, my faith is not
challenged by persecution and threat. It
is rather sneakier than that. My faith
is challenged by cool rationalism and scoffing at the idea of mystery. My faith is challenged by my ascent to
creeping materialism as I accumulate and accumulate. My faith is challenged by intellectual and
spiritual numbness that is content with undemanding status quo ennui.
My hope?
That the measure of my faith and
patience is a mean, median, mode kind of calculation…over a lifetime I seek to
creep along the positive side of zero;)
And I’ll take all the ‘oath-swearing’ God can give!
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