It’s the halfway mark of another year; I do feel the pressure of not living up to my expectations! My to-do list is in shambles; my targets and goals, both professional and personal, are not achieved as I would like to. My promises sounding hollow with “tomorrow we can reflect on the same.”
Finally, to find out a neighbor passed away. And it gets me thinking, what is life? What are my goals? why do they even matter anymore when accidentally I stumble on a Fr Mike video and I realised how much more I have to do to achieve my ultimate goal of reaching heaven
And the best part is, God has given us the road map to reach there too. In today’s Gospel, Jesus doesnt mince his words.
and to love your neighbor as yourself
is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
No, we don’t need to be majestic and nonchalant in our ways to show love (I love to sing out loud with the choir); we need to be better humans, especially in this age when we are in the midst of war, pandemic, loneliness, and hate hurled at us from every corner—all we need to show is a bit of love and understanding and just behave as human as we can!
Often I am told I’m very cheerful and optimistic as a person; I, however, beg to differ as I review every scenario to its worst extent in my overthinking, anxious brain and ruin my present moment. I want to not focus on whether I know prayers and others don’t, but thank everyone for being kind, and those who are not—well, I do hold memories of how they were put into my least liked category of people and make sure to avoid them forever!
It is not easy. As a human, I tend to judge subconsciously and feel judged too—like I was suddenly patted down at the airport for my international connection—the patting down felt like a physical assault and when I was stunned how I was chosen to be subject to it — answer was with a smirk, “It was random.” Well, something in my brain looked at my skin color and just made peace with it.
We know exactly why we need to regard everyone with love—You shall love your neighbor as yourself. As we love ourselves, even in the deep, dark web of self-hate, we do think of ourselves first as an instinct
Lets keep Jesus the sole priority in our lives.
AMEN
