June 20
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
Weekday in Ordinary Time
Today's Gospel: Matthew 6:24-34
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Jesus named the enemy nobody
wanted to admit they had. No one can serve two masters. You cannot serve both God and money.
The moment money becomes the
thing you organize your life around, it has become your god, whether you call it
that or not. And a god like that only takes your heart and your life focus away from Jesus. That so-called “security,” aka your god, allows you to live
your life in such a way that you don’t need anyone in your life, telling you
anything you don’t want to hear. You can simply avoid everyone without a care,
so be it, because you can go anywhere you wish for as long as you want. Hence,
sadly, you become your own god.
And then Jesus did something
remarkable. He didn't follow the warning with a lecture. He followed it with a deeply
insightful parable.
Look at the birds of the air.
They do not sow or reap or store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father
feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Consider the lilies of
the field. They do not labor or spin. Yet not even Solomon in all his glory was
dressed like one of these.
He pointed at creation and
said, Pay attention. The same God who clothes a wildflower that blooms for one
season and is gone tomorrow, knows your name. Seek first the Kingdom of God and
his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
All these things will be
given to you. On
top of the Kingdom. From the same hand that feeds the sparrows and dresses the
lilies without breaking a sweat.
I won't pretend I don't worry
sometimes. There are days when the numbers feel thin and the solutions feel far
away and faith has to do the heavy lifting that certainty cannot. I don't
always have a neat answer waiting. What I keep coming back to is this, He has
never once let me hit the ground. Not in the darkest seasons. Not in the
hardest years. Every single time I thought the floor was gone He was already
underneath me. I don't know how every chapter works out. But I know who wrote
the first ones.
Our Lady lived on almost
nothing in Nazareth. A carpenter's wages. A simple home. And she never once
recorded a single moment of anxiety about provision. What she had was the
certainty that the God who had chosen her for the most important task in human history
was not going to forget to feed her children. She sought first the Kingdom and everything else followed. God is always Good!!
Something to sit with today:
What would change in your life if you genuinely believed, not just in
your head, but deep in your bones, that the same God who dresses the wildflower
and feeds the sparrow already has your needs covered?
He has never once let you
hit the ground. Not in the darkest season. Not in the hardest year. Every time
the floor felt gone, He was already underneath you. That is not a feeling. That
is a fact. Be mindful that you know He is there with you.
So, what is it going to
take for you to stop organizing your life around what you might lose, and start
living like someone who knows exactly who holds it all?
Rosary Man Jim 🌹
Freely given. Freely shared.
