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REFLECTION ON THE GOSPEL AND READINGS 21 JUNE 2013

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The Gospel today speaks of the treasures of our gifts on earth and how to really enjoy them is to share them with others.

By giving we receive, by sharing we love, by loving with grow in closeness to God. Once we decide to take hold of something and hold it covetously, we don’t own it anymore. Our ego or selfishness owns it.

Let’s take our day and let go of some of those things dear to us. Our compassion, love, generosity and ability to make someone’s life better just from being with us this day.

REFLECTION ON THE DAILY GOSPEL AND READINGS 19 JUNE 2013

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The readings and Gospel today speak of that incredible joy that resides within us when we do God’s work without expecting reward or praises from others for what we do.

This seems harder to achieve that just “suffering in silence” where we have basked in our own “vain glory” for doing something for God. When we do it for God and we don’t feel like we have “done something special” we are aligning our wills with His, this is reward enough.

Humility is a tough pill to swallow, especially when others do often take the credit for something we have done. Usually people figure out who are the ones that will help them without a personal agenda, but rather have God’s agenda within them.

Do I have God’s agenda on my mind today? Have I disposed of my own?

REFLECTION ON THE DAILY GOSPEL AND READINGS 18 JUNE 2013

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By asking us to love our enemies, God doesn’t ask us to like what bad things or sins they may force on us. But He does ask us to love them. How can we possibly head out on that path? Well, I think that He wants to always be close to Him, and if we have hatred in our heart, then that separates us from Him.

So by the examples in the readings and Gospel today, we are instructed to “love our enemies”, to pray for them, to have no animosity towards them, so they may become closer to God.

If, as some experts in Spirituality propose, that our consciousness is a gift from God to feel His presence, then we surely offend Him if our conscious thoughts are malignant and hateful. These thoughts separate us from Him, and that’s not a good thing.

Let us pray today to bring ourselves to a place of love and peace with the Lord and leave all those feelings of animosity and hatred behind in the trash can of our spiritual past.