Thursday, July 2, 2020

The Miracle

There is this fellow, Elijah, who is on the run from his egomaniac king.  Apparently, Elijah said something that disagreed with the king’s wishes, so Elijah is trying to hide out. Where to go? Go to someone who society is ignoring, in this case a poor widow and her son.  Such needy people are invisible in many a society, and certainly to that king.  Now the widow is down to her last meal for herself and her son.  Then they will starve and die.  Well, Elijah is hungry too.  Fear can do that to someone.  A miracle happens. She feeds him from her want not from her surplus.  It changed her life and she did not even believe in Elijah’s religion or god.  So what about us?  Do we wait around until we have “enough” whatever that might be, before we become of service?  Fear can hold us back.  Why not be like the widow and give from your want for the sake of another?  You have a shortage of time and energy?  Be surprised at how both expand when you get out of yourself for another person.

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  1. I love reading your blogs, especially now when missing our Mass and Bread of Life. Thank You

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