Boating Diagram Of Accident

Between saying and doing ... only the sea?

ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Dt 11.18, Rom 3.21-25; Mt 7, 21-27)

Wire conductor on Sunday: two-way. First reading: Moses presents to the people or a blessing or a curse: choice, as always! Because, as always, the man remains free to choose good or evil. But if he chooses the good will in the blessing, and if he chooses evil is the curse.

• 1 / Which way?

We are always, no way out, in front of our freedom. What an effort to always have something to do with this double-cut. But the effort is the only way to happiness. Even the vocabulary is the first effort and then comes happiness ... And the Lord is careful not to remove this freedom that makes us breaking into a sweat, because it is the practical exercises that we run our "image and likeness." And then, after so much effort, we will get the crown of glory. Here is a parable
very effective in this regard. There once was a great sage who had the gift of cardiognosia (knowledge of the heart) and no one had ever managed to deceive him. One day a guy who thought a smart aleck, but it was really a fool, he studied a ruse, according to him infallible, to catch him, the great sage. He thought, I come before him with his hands behind his back with a bird in his hands and ask him: "The bird in my hand dead or alive? "If he replies that he's dead I will fly and if I say that it is alive shake hands and show him dead. It appears, therefore, the great sage and makes the fateful question: the bird that I have at hand is dead or alive? The great sage replied: "It will be what you want." That's big business: the bird is our destiny depends on our freedom: If we stifle the evil, if we do good we fly ...

• 2 / Between saying and doing ...

Even in the Gospel There is two ways, or rather, an alternative: to say or do. "There are those who say Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father." More that only half of the sea, between saying and doing, here's even half of our eternal salvation.
say and do, even here no way out: either we do what He tells us ("everyone who hears these words of mine and does them ...), or, at the slightest breath of wind, collapse to the ground (and underground ), with the house built on sand.
But how do you build a house on the rock? Or rather: who is the rock? Here comes to rescue the Responsorial Psalm in the chorus reminds us that "You, Lord, the rock that saves me" (Psalm 30). Let us therefore all our trust and our hope on the drive that there will never fail: it may even miss the ground under my feet, but God is always above our heads and then will never disappear.

• 3 / As a point of support?

We must become the acrobats of the high jump: to have our foothold in the ceiling and not on the floor. The saints are those who no longer have the floor as a base, but the ceiling. So they may also be at the rug under his feet, but not collapse because they were firmly supported the ceiling. "Only God never disappoints," said Sister Amata my fifth grade teacher (and I never forget it!). Here's a piece on which I built the house ... And you? Where did you go to take the building blocks of rock, not brittle, based on which your home?

Wilma Chasseur