Daily MAss Gospel Reflection - Choosing Hidden Treasure

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 8.2.23 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
Matthew 13:44–46

Friends, today Jesus offers two parables about the kingdom of heaven.
Let’s focus on the first one:
“The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field,
which a person finds and hides again.”

Sometimes God’s love is found that way.
There’s a saying: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
Sometimes in the course of our everyday lives,
something happens that vividly and surprisingly summons us to union with God.
We realize, in a flash, what it’s all about.
We weren’t particularly looking for it, but it found us.

That’s what Jesus is getting at today.
As you walk through the fields of life,
be open to the inrushing of grace when you least expect it.
And when it comes,
give up anything that holds it back.

[MurphsLaw]

+++Jesus said to his disciples:
"The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field,
which a person finds and hides again,
and out of joy goes and sells all that he has
and buys that field.
Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant
searching for fine pearls.
When he finds a pearl of great price,
he goes and sells all that he has and buys it."+++

[Big Red Badger]

We Stand between Two Eternities.

[MurphsLaw]

That brings to mind the image
of that suave hispanic grey-bearded guy
from the beer commericials, when he says:

"Choose Wisely, My Friend..."

[Big Red Badger]

Yuppers...
Islam is Hiring.
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