A Failure Can be a Way to Do Right!

 

13th Week Ordinary Time

Saturday

Year One

Gen 27:1-5, 15-29

A Failure Can be a Way to Do Right!

The birthright blessing of Esau, the elder son of Isaac, is stolen by Jacob. It is a tragedy for Esau. Jacob receives the blessing from Isaac through a foul play. The blessings are inherited by Jacob. It is an injustice and a wrong that has happened. We can question and argue in varied ways about this happening. Once the blessing is given, it cannot be taken back. Even if one has played a foul game in receiving the blessing. Inasmuch as the blessing is a blessing and it is a gift, grace and inheritance, so no one can alter it. At this point, we ponder that it is the working of God, and the hand of God is there. God blesses those whom he chooses and the idea who can understand the ways of the Lord and teach him justice and right. Let us be subject to God’s designs.

Do we accept the Lord's workings as his designs for us?

Year Two

Amos 9:11-15

Meditation

A Failure Can be a Way to Do Right

The Lord is harsh and just as a father does with his child.  The hardships and trials that come in the way of humans are God send some way or the other. They come not to destroy but to make us prosper in the world and as well in the sight of God. Storms in life are signs that we have the strength to face them and to rebuild ourselves after the destruction or harm.

Only those who have gone through life trials and ups and downs of life can be able to find meaning in the Lord. Life offers variety of opportunities to return to the Lord and to know the truth. The realization of evil, wrong and sin itself is the grace to give up the wrong path and choose the right path and grow in virtue and holiness. Each one has to purify himself/herself to be acceptable to the Lord.

Are we aware of the fact that sin creates hate for evil and love for virtue?

Mt 9:14-17

No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. (Mt 9:16)

When the new comes, the old has to give way. New is interesting and appealing, while the old is not. We like new and dislike the old. Jesus came to give us a new teaching, to renew the creation; with him, we have a new beginning. The new is new and old is old, the old goes well with old and new goes well with the new, for that is the law of nature. We have to put new wine in new wine skins; if you keep new wine in old wine skins, they will spill. Let us accept change and the newness that the Lord is offering to us and around us.

Do I welcome the newness into life and the world as God’s gift?

Fr. Putti Anthaiah sdb

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