We all know that businesses thrive on strong relationships, so they try hard to impress their clients and external stakeholders.
However, little attention may be paid to relationships with our peers, bosses and colleagues.
However, little attention may be paid to relationships with our peers, bosses and colleagues.
In the workplace there is a go-to person who is the individual everyone appreciates and turns to for advice, whether it is de-facto or officially appointed.
If we are that go-to person, we may certainly feel rather important and needed and valued.
In the gospel, we heard that Jesus was like a go-to person. When Peter's mother-in-law was down with fever, they told Him about her and He went over to heal her.
In the evening after sunset, they brought to Him all who were sick and those possessed by devils and He cured them.
If we were doing all that we might be feeling very good about ourselves.
But in reality, if we were doing all that, we would, sooner or later feel the strain and the drain of being the person that everyone would off-load their problems to and expect quick solutions.
And if we are feeling as such already, then Jesus gave us a direction in the gospel as to how to cope with such demands.
We heard that in the morning, long before dawn, He got up and left the house, and went off to a lonely place and prayed there.
So as much as people went to Him with all sorts of problems, Jesus Himself went to God to be refreshed and to be strengthened to face the demands of the people.
Jesus has given us the direction. God was His go-to person. May God also be our go-to person.