Wednesday, August 29, 2012

21st Week, Ordinary Time, Thursday, 30-08-12

1 Corinthians 1:1-9 / Matthew 24:42-51

Time and tide waits for no one. Certainly, time has a way of slipping by us without us being aware of it as it flows by.

I was at a class reunion just the other day and someone mentioned that it has been 35 years since we left school.

If anything, 35 years is certainly a long time. And over that period of time, we had moved on from school to pursue our own directions in life.

It had been a long time, and yet we can recall vividly the moments we had in school and the occasions we met and how we had been keeping up with each other.

Yet the passage of time is not just for us to keep reminiscing about the past. It is also a time to look forward and to wait.

In the 1st reading, St. Paul tells us we are waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed, and that He will keep us steady and without blame until the last day.

So as much as we treasure the past for whatever it is, we also must stand ready for what is to come.

To stay awake is to be alert and well as to be sensitive to the small and quiet revelations of the Lord in our busy and hurried world.

In fact as we reminisce and reflect on the past, then we would have also seen how we had been careless and rather foolish even, to let the Lord pass us by without us understanding it or acting on it.

Let us awake from our spiritual slumber and stand alert and ready because the Lord wants to reveal how He is going to bless us.