Saturday, 8/27/16
In Our Lord’s Gospel parable today, the king rewarded the
servants who used their talents for success. Forgive me for telling an old
story of mine that was prompted by this Gospel.
Thirty years ago a kid raised her hand in class, asking, “Father,
if we are all made in God’s image, how come some people are left handed.”
I gave her a mean answer. I said, “My sister Peggy is left
handed, so I think God makes all mean people left handed so we can tell who
they are.” But afterwards I took to puzzling over the kid’s question, asking
myself how we can all be like God when we are so different from each oher.
The answer that popped into my head was that if we picture
God as being like a many faceted jewel, we can see each of us born to mirror a
different facet of God.
No, that can’t be exactly right. We know plenty of people
who are not like God at all. Still, there is some worth to my idea that we each
mirror a different facet of God.
My idea works if you see each of us as being born with a
potential of mirroring a different facet of God. If by practicing virtue, and
by avoiding sinfulness, we clarify our images, we can gradually begin to be
more and more God-like, each in our own way. That kind of good behavior is what
is like investing those talents God gave us.
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