Chasm
between Rich and Poor!
Paddy
Gilger, S.J. remarks, “ People won’t be persuaded to cross the
great chasm between the rich and the poor (a chasm that, let’s not kid
ourselves, exists just a much in this world as Abraham says it does in the
next) even if one were rise from the dead?
Then what hope is there to change
our lives?
What could convince us to, as Pope Francis keeps saying, come out of
ourselves and go to the peripheries?
More tortuous than all else is the
human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it?
The only thing that
spans the chasms within our tortured human hearts is love.
A generous and
boundless love.
A love we have not deserved. A love that teaches us to trust it not because we are faithful, but because it is.
Abraham is right, it is not the
miraculous that spans such chasms, and it’s not guilt, or obligation, or fear.
Certainly there are miracles, but we do not cross chasms because we’ve been
awed.
Certainly we are guilty of not living up to the love we’ve been given,
but chasms are not crossed by those seeking to distract themselves from guilt.
Certainly we are obliged, but we do not cross chasms out of obligation.
And certainly we are afraid, but
chasms are not crossed by those in flight.
It’s only love that sets a heart
nearly beyond remedy alight.
A cocooning love that gives us space to change.
A cooling love that teaches us not to
fear the heat, to reach out despite rejections.
To reach out because that is
what lovers do, reach out to each other.… that one is like a tree planted
beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the stream:
It
fears not the heat when it comes, its leaves stay green; In the year
of drought it shows no distress, but still bears fruit.” How is my
attitude towards the poor in my midst?
Pope Francis Visits the Muddy and the Rich in Brazil:
Be Not Afraid....
Let us unite ourselves in prayer for end to
poverty and world peace!
I can only Imagine...
Wynona Judd ...I can only Imagine
Love can build a bridge...Wynona Judd
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