Saturday, 2/11/17
After Adam’s happy time in the garden, it must have hurt
deeply to hear God say, “You will return
to the ground from which you were taken, for you are dirt, and to dirt you shall
return.”
We are sorry for poor old Adam. But what makes those words particularly
gruesome is the realization that they apply to us as well.
Is there anything in our lives that has made our pre-dirt
years worth while? Oh sure there is. We have contributed to healthy family
life, and to making things happier outside of our family circle.
Today’s Gospel has me remembering a silly good deed from
sixty years ago. For my parish in Korea I erected a bulletin board to attract the
attention of people passing by. For one item, each week I did a watercolor
illustration of the Sunday Gospel. For today’s Gospel I turned my
cook Peduroo into a disciple carrying a basket of bread down
the hill. He complained over how long he had to pose with one foot on my easy
chair, and one foot on the floor.
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