Riches and worldly concerns make us forgetful of the past, confused in the present and uncertain about the future. Namely, they cause us to lose sight of the three pillars on which our life is founded. This is the essential of this weekly reflection.

The parable of the sower (Mt 13) helps us to understand this. The seed that fell upon thorny ground was choked. But who choked it? Jesus says ‘riches and worldly concerns (meaning our own worries).Worries prevent it from growing and the seed died, choked because it was not attended. What do these riches and concerns do to us?  They merely cut us out of time. Our whole life rests on three pillars: one in the past, one in the present and another in the future. This is clear in the Bible; the pillar of the past is the choice. The Lord chose us; He loved me, He said come, and in Baptism He chose me to follow a path, the Christian path. The future is the promise Jesus made to humankind. “He chose me to walk towards a promise; lastly, the present is our response to this God who is so good, who chose me, who made me a promise and called me into a covenant with Him; and his created world.

Choice, promise, covenants; these are therefore the three pillars of our Christian life. However, sometimes, it happens that when our heart enters the “worried zone”, it cuts out time. It cuts out the past; it cuts out the future and it is confused in the present. This happens because those who cling to worldly concerns are not concerned with either the past or the future.

Let us ask the Lord for the grace to not worry about our worries, but to  always remember that our Father chose us and promised us something good, we must therefore “walk toward that promise, embracing  the present as it is.

Riches and worldly concerns make us forgetful of the past, confused in the present and uncertain about the future. Namely, they cause us to lose sight of the three pillars on which our life is founded. This is the essential of this weekly reflection.

The parable of the sower (Mt 13) helps us to understand this. The seed that fell upon thorny ground was choked. But who choked it? Jesus says ‘riches and worldly concerns (meaning our own worries).Worries prevent it from growing and the seed died, choked because it was not attended. What do these riches and concerns do to us?  They merely cut us out of time. Our whole life rests on three pillars: one in the past, one in the present and another in the future. This is clear in the Bible; the pillar of the past is the choice. The Lord chose us; He loved me, He said come, and in Baptism He chose me to follow a path, the Christian path. The future is the promise Jesus made to humankind. “He chose me to walk towards a promise; lastly, the present is our response to this God who is so good, who chose me, who made me a promise and called me into a covenant with Him; and his created world.

Choice, promise, covenants; these are therefore the three pillars of our Christian life. However, sometimes, it happens that when our heart enters the “worried zone”, it cuts out time. It cuts out the past; it cuts out the future and it is confused in the present. This happens because those who cling to worldly concerns are not concerned with either the past or the future.

Let us ask the Lord for the grace to not worry about our worries, but to  always  remember that our Father chose us and promised us something good, we must therefore “walk toward that promise, embracing  the present as it is.