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TUESDAY, October 25
Matthew 13:1-9. Let anyone with ears listen!
Some of my most satisfying moments as a parent are when one of our daughters, now adults, calls us and laments that she should have listened to my wife and me while she was growing up. She will say it would have saved her in so many ways and she is now paying the price of having not heeded our advice.
Of course, those satisfying moments last only a short time because our daughter would not have made that confession had she not been hurting in some way. The moment is further shortened by the knowledge that I am just like my daughters. I did not always listen to my parents, much to my later chagrin.
Don’t we all have ears? Don’t we all listen? Do we truly listen to what Jesus tells us? Obviously not. We don’t listen because we don’t want to hear what is being said. We don’t want to do what we are told we must do. And even when we do listen and do hear what is being said, we find an excuse to ignore him.
The saving grace is that sometimes, like my daughter, we eventually come to our senses. May we come to them sooner rather than later.
PRAY for the Diocese of Tirunelveli (South India)
Ps 45 * 47, 48; Ezra 5:1-17; Revelation 4:1-11
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