Gospel, Homily and Coffee

This is a familiar Gospel Story, and we may think this is about good poor guy bad rich guy; but there something else is here in our Gospel. How do we know a person of integrity? Their words and actions coincide. We would want someone helping us to get healthy who actually eats well, works out, does not smoke, et al. A chain smoking, morbidly obese trainer that eats only at McDonalds would not be our first choice, probably.  Their core value would be healthy living. Within us, we all have core truths, core values, whether we are conscious of them or not; of course the hope is that we are aware of them.  Then to be aware of them, we look to our actions: what do we do? Torah, the law, provides the Core Truths for Jews and Christians. Persistent throughout Torah is God calling Israel to protect those who are vulnerable; the widow, the orphan, those aliens among them. God reminded the people that God had rescued them as slaves, liberated them, so they must not enslave and mis...

Who here are great organizers? Persons who can think through and get ready what needs to be done? Persons who do it instinctually? I envy you. I can organize, but with a lot of effort. And as I mature, I have less energy, and less patience for it, I kind of want to simply go. And sometimes the consequences of that are not fun. God created the world and all within it to be a stage upon which all of creation can encounter, know and love God. God will bring life. Humanity serves as the mediator between God and Creation; that is our role. We share our love of God with all of creation. Such is the wisdom of God.  Humanity had a choice; to honor that role, their creator, and follow that wisdom of God, or choose themselves. We know how the story goes. And by the choice, tempted by human logic, humanity enslaves itself to what is not God, to what does not bring life. We can read in Genesis right away the consequences of that choice; Adam and Eve begin a blame game with each oth...