WITNESS
3-28-13
MEASURING SUCCESS
How do you measure success
In your life
In today’s world
The secular world tells us
That more is better
Bigger is best
And if you are NOT no. 1
It is insignificant
It measures our value
By how much money
Or material wealth that we have
Or what
Our boyfriend or girlfriend looks like
And it is WRONG
The standards of God
Are different than this world
God tells us
That we
A single individual in this world MATTER
Regardless of our wealth
Or what we look like
ALL we have to do
Is look at the parables
In the 15th chapter of Saint Luke’s Gospel
To know HOW GOD FEELS about us
He tells us
ABOUT ONE lost sheep
ABOUT ONE LOST COIN
AND ABOUT ONE LOST SON
Trying to reconnect with his loving father
God doesn’t say-“Count my sheep”
He says-“FEED them”
So we know
That whoever we are
Whatever state that we are in
That we matter to God
AND GOD LOVES US
Jesus spent countless time-hours
Meeting with people one-on-one
Healing them-eating with them
Spending time with them
And then going off ALONE to pray
ONE MATTERS-to God
ONE MATTERS-to Christ
ONE MATTERS-YOU MATTER
Mother Theresa said,
“One does NOT call us to be successful
But to be FAITHFFUL”
And even
When we fail
In our life long battle to be faithful
As Saint Peter did
Jesus reaches out to us
In love and forgiveness
So we KNOW
That our success
DEPENDS on our relationship with God
YOU MATTER TO GOD
Robert P. Wallman
5-25-12
Ps Inspired by
an article in Living Faith magazine
5-25-12-Sister Melanie Svoboda, S.N.D.
WITNESS 3-28-13
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