01/07/2025

Tuesday Week 13 Ordinary Time

The disciples are reprimanded for their "lack of faith". Abraham and Lot are saved by theirs. I am still receiving and trying to follow mine. 

God in his infinite liberty chooses to reveal himself and part of our created being is the created freedom that can become either Faith or Self-Destruction.

Everything that we know about anything takes place in the minds of real people who are responding to our own personal awareness of subjective being and also of all the "Other" that is not within  the individual subject that each one of us is.

The People of Genesis are aware that their first forefather Adam had damaged creation and regarded natural disasters the Flood, today's obliteration of Sodom and Gomorrah as evidence of the Creator's displeasure. It  seems that God, at the beginning of time, has patience with the uninstructed ones and today we learn of the partial success of Abraham's pleadings directly to God in yesterday's first reading.

In today's Gospel the  "Disciples in the Boat" the product of all the Faith in Word and Deed of the Old Testament, are in the  presence of God Incarnate with them in the boat, and yet are still afraid they are about to suffer a violent death by a storm, a Natural event.

Although the Incarnation, Life, Death and Resurrection have completely renewed God's revelation of himself, mankind's "Faith" , part of "Image and Likeness" must always be complete and never change.

Noah and Abraham trusted to the extent that they felt secure enough to negotiate with the "All Powerful"; they had Faith. The disciples became panic-stricken by their lack of control of the boat but continue to learn from their Rabbi; they grew into Faith. 

I have often failed to bear witness  to the Faith that is my straightforward "Yes" to God and all that he reveals but I have never despaired and pray to God that I can continue to live as did Abraham and the Disciples in the Boat, growing in Faith, Hope and Love for what remains of my life in the time of this Earth.