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What’s Your Excuse?
3 min
Gospel
Lk 9:57-62
As they were going along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.” To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” But he said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” Another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
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Transcript
What’s Your Excuse?
What is it that jumps out
at you today? Remember, each day we're looking for one word, one phrase, one idea. It
could be different for you, it could be different for me, it could be different for a
hundred people, that's okay.
But that is how God speaks to us through
the Scriptures, and that ultimately is what we're trying to do here each day, is learn
to listen to God speaking into our lives, speaking to us through the Scriptures, and
into our lives, wherever we are today, whatever it is we have going on in our lives. I
think the idea that jumps out of me today is excuses. I think, again, if we took a very
literal read on what Jesus is saying here, I think it could cast you know Jesus in sort
of a harsh light, or you're accusing him of being pretty harsh with people
here.
But if we look at it as a whole, what we see here is we see
people saying yes, but no. We see people saying yes, but not now. We see people saying,
"Yes, but it's not convenient right now, so I'll do it when it's convenient." And I'm
like that. And I'm like that sometimes. Not all the time, but I'm like that sometimes. I
think it's good for me to realize that. I think it's good for me to see that because I
don't want to be like that. I want to be the one that says yes to God and it responds
immediately, instantaneously, generously, abundantly.
And I do have
my excuses, and I do have my justifications. And I had a teacher in high school, and
think about him right now. Sometimes we'd say things in class, and he would say
something like, "As excellent nonsense, Mr. Kelly." And just the idea of marrying those
two words together, like excellent nonsense. And I think my excuses and my
justifications are excellent nonsense. And I want to be called out of that. I want to be
challenged out of that. That's what I am challenged in this reading to do today is to
respond more generously and faster to whatever it is God is calling me to do, large or
small.
Have a great day, and Be Bold, Be Catholic.
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