There are moments in each of our lives when hope in the God of yield and plenty has felt distant and others when we rejoice in our presence as one whose life proclaims resurrection. Many of us, I suspect – if not all of us – find ourselves as those who are “Blessed-bringers” and those who receive the “Woe-warning” as we hear in [Luke’s Gospel]. No one of us is given lifetime admittance to those who make the dream of God – the Kingdom of God—come true - forever in our midst.
Today, we are issued both an invitation and a choice. God leaves us free to look within our heart and see what love calls us to do – AND where our feet take us. Do we nourish the soil on which we are planted by keeping our eyes open, our hearts wide, and our hands outstretched? Our past history, our giving record – the social action we took yesterday does not exempt us from the discerning heart that requires that our insides and our outsides match- today. I am challenged again, in this day – to make my life the Gospel read by another – to make visible the vision of Jesus and the tools he left us. When was the last time I washed the feet of the ‘woe warned’ or allowed my own heart to be cleansed?
In our midst is the invitation and the call – to make room at the table for both the Blessed Bringers and the Woe-Warned – where each of us makes room for the other – I for you and you for me – no matter what category we place one another -- so that we might hope again – that the dream of God is our dream…
A dream where we will each have the chance to make the toast and to eat the toast of love.
To be the bread of life with for one another.
What does love ask of us this day?
--Bridget Bearss, RSCJ
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