Reflection for Wednesday, Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

Today's Word

By


Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest
Don Bosco Shrine
Lingarajapuram, Bangalore

2 Corinthians: 9:6 "whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully."


Today's Reflection

Three times in the course of the gospel reading Jesus speaks of God as ‘your Father who sees all that is done in secret’.

Jesus is saying that God sees what humans often do not see.

God sees the good we do that others do not get to see.

Jesus saw in the way that God sees.

He often saw the good people were doing that others never saw.

He recognized the generosity of the widow at the Temple treasury. She put in two small copper coins, hardly making a sound as they were dropped into the treasury.

She would have gone unnoticed by most people present.

However, Jesus noticed her and drew the attention of his disciples to her extraordinary generosity; he recognized that in giving the little she gave she was, in reality, giving everything she had.

Jesus often saw goodness in people whom others would have written off.

He invited himself to the house of Zacchaeus because he recognized that there was more to Zacchaeus than his reputation would suggest.

The human eye only sees so much. As the Jewish Scriptures declare, we look at appearances, whereas the Lord looks at the heart.

The Lord always sees what is best in us, even when the goodness in our heart and the good we do is below the radar when it comes to human seeing.

We are called to live as people who are always before the Lord, aware that the Lord is always seeing us, not with judgmental eyes but with eyes of love, eyes that recognize the good in us that others very often do not see and that, perhaps, we do not even see ourselves.

The gospel also tells us to empty ourselves of hypocrisy or attention seeking, so that in letting go of ourselves, we let God come and fill our lives.

It is in giving that we will also received, we will be renewed with the living water that God will pour into our lives.


Resolution

Lets resolve not be like stagnant water in a cup. But let's  empty ourselves for God and for others, so to be refilled with the living water of God's love and  be able to do all the generous things which are the cause of thanksgiving to God.

GOD BLESS YOU 

Good morning. Have a nice safe day