Daily Retreat 11/17/06
2006 Nov 17 Fri: Elizabeth of Hungary, mw, r M
2 Jn 4-9/ Ps 118(119): 1. 2. 10. 11. 17. 18/ Lk 17: 26-37
From today’s readings: “Anyone who is so progressive as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God.... Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord.... As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man...”
Missing the Boat
Noah and Lot know a lot about being counter-cultural. Each of them, in listening to and fulfilling divine commands to flee from perverse and depraved generations, was subject to derision and ridicule from all their sinful neighbors, those persons who had more important things to do than listen to God....
What was more important than listening to God? Eating and drinking, marrying, buying, selling, planting, and building - these are all activities of daily life, and not necessarily frivolous ones, either. All of us have spent a good portion of our own lifetimes on such pursuits - what’s so bad about doing such things that made whole generations miss the boat?
The answer, I guess, comes down to a simple question: what is life all about, anyway? Is life lost to listening, and thus to be saved only for eating and drinking, marrying, buying, selling, planting, building, etc.? Or is life only to be saved by being lost in listening to God?
2 Jn 4-9/ Ps 118(119): 1. 2. 10. 11. 17. 18/ Lk 17: 26-37
From today’s readings: “Anyone who is so progressive as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God.... Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord.... As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man...”
Missing the Boat
Noah and Lot know a lot about being counter-cultural. Each of them, in listening to and fulfilling divine commands to flee from perverse and depraved generations, was subject to derision and ridicule from all their sinful neighbors, those persons who had more important things to do than listen to God....
What was more important than listening to God? Eating and drinking, marrying, buying, selling, planting, and building - these are all activities of daily life, and not necessarily frivolous ones, either. All of us have spent a good portion of our own lifetimes on such pursuits - what’s so bad about doing such things that made whole generations miss the boat?
The answer, I guess, comes down to a simple question: what is life all about, anyway? Is life lost to listening, and thus to be saved only for eating and drinking, marrying, buying, selling, planting, building, etc.? Or is life only to be saved by being lost in listening to God?
posted by FrPitstick | 11/15/2006
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