Morning Connection:

Today is Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Good Morning.

A thought for the day:

            Change your mind – if you must.

The Church’s 1^st reading for today:                Genesis  chapter 49   verses 2, 8-10

Jacob called his sons and said to them:
“Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob,
listen to Israel, your father.

“You, Judah, shall your brothers praise
–your hand on the neck of your enemies;
the sons of your father shall bow down to you.
Judah, like a lion’s whelp,
you have grown up on prey, my son.
He crouches like a lion recumbent,
the king of beasts–who would dare rouse him?
The scepter shall never depart from Judah,
or the mace from between his legs,
While tribute is brought to him,
and he receives the people’s homage.”

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Winston Churchill once received an invitation to attend the opening performance of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. Shaw wired him: "Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend -- if you have one." Churchill wired back: "Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second -- if there is one."

There’s always hope.

This seems to be the very same theme coming through our Scripture passage for today:  despite our selfish ways we are still redeemable – there is hope.  If we listen to the words our God speaks to us – and we live them:  there is hope.

We all know families which have been severely fractured in their internal relationships.  Stubbornness, perhaps pride, dims the possibility of the family coming together as one – again.  The same happens within God’s family as well.  Some choose to go their own way, pulling the weak along with them while others know that their relationship with their Creator must endure through every difficulty – even at the cost of great personal sacrifice.

Every time you and I give thought to God:  there is hope.

Every time you and I reach out to someone we have allowed to slip beyond us:  there hope.

God bless,

Father Pat