Wednesday, 11/16/16
Our Lord told us this parable of making good use of the gold
talents entrusted to us. This is a favorite topic of mine, so if you don’t want
to read what I have said several times before, just lay this aside, and say
your prayers.
In our Sixth Grade classroom one day back in the eighties
Casey Corrigan raised her hand, and asked, “If God made us in his image, how
come some people are left handed? My answer to that was that my sister Peggy
was left handed, so I suppose God makes all mean people left handed so we can tell
who they are.
That was a foolish thing to say. Peggy was a loving mother
who sent twelve of her thirteen children through college. Still, Casey’s
question hid this deeper question: “If we are all made in God’s image, how can
we be so different from each other?”
An answer to that question came to me. It is this: we can
think of God as being like a many faceted jewel, with each of us created with
the potential of mirroring a different facet. We are not created mirroring a
facet of God. We are born only with the potential of mirroring our own facet. We
can each mirror that facet of God only if we practice a Christ-like love for all,
as we develop all of our individualized natural talents for having heathy minds
and bodies.
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