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From: The Lighthouse Keeper <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Aug 16 04:51PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/1c0a930184c982b
Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
By Beth DeCristofaro
Thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are haughty of heart, you say, "A
god am I! I occupy a godly throne in the heart of the sea!"— And yet
you are a man, and not a god, however you may think yourself like a
god. (Ezekiel 28:2)
(The disciples asked) … "Who then can be saved?" Jesus looked at them
and said, "For men this is impossible, but for God all things are
possible." (Matthew 19:26)
Piety
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it
was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
Study
Somehow we humans keep doing ourselves in. The prophecy from Ezekiel
foretells the downfall of a foreign king who was so powerful as to
think himself immune from the rules of men. The disciples have just
been told that it will be easier to get a camel through the eye of a
needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. I can sure understand the
desire to be above the rules or the chance to make my own rules. But
why would anyone want to get a camel through the eye of a needle? The
reality is that people do this everyday – make life choices which are
self-centered, thoughtless, greedy, even down right mean. And we do it
because we feel that we need to be in control or we have the answers
or for many other human-centered reasons.
Just as God created us out of an abounding love, God offers us the
gift of salvation out of that same love. We can't save ourselves. We
really don't control much at all. There is an awful lot of meanness in
the world. Rather than despairing, however, we can rejoice in the
freedom God also gives to us that allows us to accept the gifts of
God. And give over to God the control, the meanness, the greed we
desire. Then we can act more as if we are God's saved, loved ones –
and love one another - rather than act like we are rulers of our
universe.
Amazing how we keep trying to stuff camels through needles' eyes.
Action
What camel do we keep trying to stuff? What rules are we rewriting for
our own benefit? Can we let them go and instead, give thanks and put
ourselves at the disposal to the God who was and who is?
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