Thank God for Dreams!

 

34th   week Tuesday in Ordinary Time

Year one

Dan 2:31-45

Meditation

Thank God for Dreams!

People sleep in the temple to dream and thus to know the wishes of God. In dreams one’s wishful thinking is revealed as dream. Dreams have a say in one’s life but it is good not break head to seek meaning and purpose of it. Take dreams at their face values. The dream of the king in the word of God today tells that the king can have authority over the people. It also tells the king through Daniel that the ultimate power and authority is of God. Authority in the world is much sort after and desired but the authority is granted by God to those whom he wishes. To those whom God gives authority should use well for the people of God. Everyone should submit to God’s power who is the ultimate end of power and authority.

Do we give too much importance to dreams?

Year Two

Rev 14:14-19

The Son of Man Will Come Sitting on the Cloud!

These are harvest days in our country. The farmers have worked hard and invested money and time in their farms. These days, they harvest the crops, which involves cutting with machines and purifying the grains to sell or use for their food.

Harvest days are happy days for farmers for their hard work has come to a good end.  In the last days of life, the Lord will send angels to harvest and the Son of Man will sit on the cloud to gather the earth's harvest. If we live well the Son of Man will take us to heaven; if not eternal damnation.

Be prepared to be harvested!

Lk 21:5-11

Destruction is Inevitable!

“When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified, for these things must take place first, but the end will not follow immediately.”  Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom; there will be great earthquakes and in various places famines and plagues, and there will be dreadful portents and great signs from heaven. (Lk 21:9-11).

The readings of these days speak about the end of the world. At the end of the world arises the dangerous things in the world which consists of death and destruction of life. We have had many wars in the world, many pandemics, many calamities and many dangerous signs in the sky, which resulted many deaths. One way of looking at these events is that our end is the end of us on this earth and need not be the end of the whole universe. Let us be ready to face the end of life and enter into loving embrace of God.

How do I take the signs of destruction in the world?

Fr Putti Anthaiah, sdb