Tuesday, October 13, 2020
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When We Consider
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what is man that you take thought of us, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than God, and you crown him with glory and majesty!
We spend far too much time comparing ourselves with others rather than measuring ourselves against our own potential. We pass too many hours lamenting what might have been or what we wish might be instead of giving thanks for all that we are. We lament loss as a deficit rather than leaning into the grief and growing through the suffering. We struggle to be like gods without realizing that . . . we are already members of Christ’s Mystical Body.
God says: Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if I so clothe the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will I clothe you? Oh, you of little faith! And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying. For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek; but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek my kingdom, and these things will be added to you. Do not be afraid, little flock, for I have chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. (Luke12:27-32)
Jesus enters the world as an infant in an obscure place of unremarked parents and yet Jesus is the one who supersedes all powers and principalities. With this inversion we cannot help but see that although our lives are brief in the scope of God’s time, we are precious and vital to God’s plan.
When we consider the gift of Jesus’ suffering and love . . . how can we not return so great a gift?
For a visual meditation of Psalm 8, click on the image above and look for the YouTube link, or go to: Psalm 8, A visual meditation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erTSh-vhuxA
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