Our life is a precious gift that God gives to us. God hears our prayers and promises us that he will be there for us and to guide us in ways that we can never imagine. God never abandons us and God always keeps a promise.
It seems that the readings today are not so much about teaching us how to pray, but more importantly, how attentive God is to our prayers. Sometimes, that attentiveness comes to us in strange and unexpected ways, such as when difficult situations we live through become the source of unexpected blessings.
Our life is a precious gift that God gives to us. God hears our prayers and promises us that he will be there for us and to guide us in ways that we can never imagine. God never abandons us and God always keeps a promise. There is a great lesson that the gospel today wants to teach us about hospitality. Perhaps even more important than physical hospitality is simply listening to one another. This kind of hospitality always brings a gift from God.
True hospitality is first of all recognizing that each of us is God's creation, as the presence of Jesus Christ himself. If we recognize Christ in each other, all of the other details of hospitality will take care of themselves. It is when we only see another human being as sinful and broken that we treat others poorly. Let us pray today for the grace to see Christ in each other at all times. Just like last Sunday, the key theme in today's gospel is discipleship. Jesus knew the difficulties in being a disciple, and assures us today, that if we follow him, he will work wonders through us. Our journey as followers of Jesus will be accompanied with signs and wonders, which do not need to be grandiose, but can be simple miracles of daily life.
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