- Matthew 17:20
Jesus came to bring freedom. As he says in today's Gospel passage: "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move."
"Nothing will be impossible for you."
Sometimes the gospel may feel confining. Actually, it's just the opposite. Jesus isn't a shepherd who confines the sheep in a pen. He is the good shepherd who calls the sheep out of a pen into wide-open, green pastures.
Without realizing it, we can get trapped in our schedules, our activities, our possessions - penned in like sheep.
We need to "un-attach" ourselves from our schedules, activities, possessions, so that we can experience a refreshing sense of freedom. It's like the feeling we get when we clean a closet, the garage, the basement, our desks ... and keep it clean.
Consistently to give "off the top" brings that same sense of uncluttered life, a sense of pace and freedom.
Talk to the Lord about it. Hear him say: "Nothing will be impossible for you."
- Little Burgundy Book, Diocese of Saginaw