MEASURING SUCCESS

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 15^th 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 and 6-1-2019