Monday, March 14, 2022

IT'S ABOUT THE BROKEN

 







IT IS ABOUT THE BROKEN


Jesus fed 5,000=

With five loaves of bread=

And 4,000 with seven loaves

Of bread


But the disciples STILL seemed

To be WORRYING

About the amount of bread


But Jesus REMINDS them today=

It is NOT about the bread

It is about the BROKEN


It is about NOTICING what

Has been discarded=left over=

And deemed LESS THAN RELEVANT


“Do you NOT REMEMBER.......how many

Wicker baskets 

FULL of fragments

You picked up?”                                                                                                Mark 8:18-19


Yes=Jesus reminds the disciples

Of TWO OCCASIONS


How he commanded then

To GATHER up

The crumbs


There were once

Twelve baskets full

And once seven


IT IS ABOUT

THE BROKEN


Yes=it is about=

THE BROKEN=those people

In this world

That the world discards


They are relevant=

They are IMPORTANT to God=

ALL people are important to God


“Woe to you-

Teachers of the law

And Pharisees=you HYPOCRITES!


You give a tenth

Of your spices=mint-

Dill-and cumin


But you have NEGLECTED

The MORE IMPORTANT matters

Of the law=

Justice-mercy-and faithfulness”                                                                     Matthew 23:23


“But what does it matter?

The IMPORTANT THING

Is that

In every way


Whether from false motives

Or true

CHRIST is preached


And because of this=

I REJOICE”                                                                                                           Philippians 1:18


Yes=all people are

LOVED by God=

All people

Are IMPORTANT to God


What a world this

Would be=if every member

Of this world

Were VALUED by society


“When he found one

Of GREAT VALUE

He went away


And sold everything

He had

And bought it”                                                                                                  Matthew 17:46


Every person is a TREASURE

And we should be

TREATED as such


Jesus tells us=HIS

MODERN DAY DISCIPLES

To pay attention

To what


This world counts as WORTHLESS=

Those who seem

To count for NOTHING


We are all=OF GREAT IMPORTANCE

To God=especially

The BROKEN PEOPLE

Of this world


In the names of Jesus=and our FATHER who VALUES US ALL


Robert P. Wallman

2-18-20 and 3-14-2022



Ps       INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.


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