Accept surprises that upset your plans, shatter your dreams, give a completely different turn to your day and who knows? -- to your life. Leave the Father free himself to weave the pattern of your days.
- Dom Helder Camara
("God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.")
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HEB 10:19-25; PS 24:1-2, 3-4AB, 5-6
MK 4:21-25
Jesus said to his disciples,
"Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket
or under a bed,
and not to be placed on a lampstand?
For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible;
nothing is secret except to come to light.
Anyone who has ears to hear ought to hear."
He also told them, "Take care what you hear.
The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you,
and still more will be given to you.
To the one who has, more will be given;
from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away."
Reflection on the Scriptures |
By telling his close followers that “there is nothing hidden except be made visible, nothing is secret except to come to light.” Christ is saying the hiddenness of the message is only temporary. What was seen and heard by the inner circle will eventually come to full exposure. Wait, hope and see.
But there’s a nagging related question that doesn’t want to go away.
Do parables harden hearts?
Take the parable of the good Samaritan. The point is that any person, anywhere on the planet, is your neighbor. Period. No exceptions. The parable will enlighten and soften some hearts, but not others.
Parables do not harden people’s hearts.
Hearts do that on their own.
A cautionary tale, and food for thought, deep in the grip of winter, here in the northern hemisphere.
- Rev. Steve Ryan.
Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of Norwich
Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 55
“Christ is our Way”—”Mankind shall be restored from double death”
AND thus Christ is our Way, us surely leading in His laws, and Christ in His body mightily beareth us up into heaven. For I saw that Christ, us all having in Him that shall be saved by Him, worshipfully presenteth His Father in heaven with us; which present full thankfully His Father receiveth, and courteously giveth it to His Son, Jesus Christ: which gift and working is joy to the Father, and bliss to the Son, and pleasing to the
Holy Ghost. And of all things that belong to us [to do], it is most pleasing to our Lord that we enjoy in this joy which is in the blessed Trinity [in virtue] of our salvation. (And this was seen in the Ninth Shewing, where it speaketh more of this matter.) And notwithstanding all our feeling of woe or weal, God willeth that we should understand and hold by faith that we are more verily in heaven than in earth.
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