Tuesday, 11/17/15
Matthew, Mark and Luke, in describing the preaching of Jesus
from village to village, said he was telling people to turn their thinking
around. In today’s Gospel, that is what Jesus moved Zacchaeus to do.
So forcibly was Zacchaeus impressed by Our Lord’s goodness, that
he wanted to be like that too. Anxious to be near that kind of goodness, he first
of all, climbed a sycamore. Then, after gaining Our Lords ear, he experienced a
strong need to be like him. He tried accomplishing that by doubly compensating all those whom he
had cheated.
This weekend I had pleasant phone chats with first a niece
and then a nephew, both of whom had stories about how other individuals among their
siblings and their kids had turned
things around, finding happiness by throwing off their vices.
But turning our thinking around is not just a life-changing
move we make once through our years. In taking stock of ourselves each morning we
can find something to turn from to
make our lives happier.
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