I've noticed that a big theme of our priest's homilies is that our time is short. He often mentions the funerals he said Mass for in the past week. This morning he said. "I said Mass at 3 funerals this week". How must that affect one's outlook on life, attending so many funerals. I think it must really hone your faith and make you realise how precious, how fragile and short our life truly is. He said" a woman who died recently was only a month younger than me. That really hit home."
So our life is too short to nurse grudges for one thing. Or to focus on negatives in others or ourselves. To be bored, ever. A spare minute means an opportunity to pray. Too short to judge ourselves as failures in our secular lives. In the scheme of things, our failures are a tiny spec. The only failure we need concern ourselves is the tendency to ignore God. He needs to be front and centre, instead of like a doctor we visit when we get sick.
Our life is too short for self-pity. There is always someone who suffered worse than us, including Jesus Christ. Better we notice others' pain first.
So our life is too short to nurse grudges for one thing. Or to focus on negatives in others or ourselves. To be bored, ever. A spare minute means an opportunity to pray. Too short to judge ourselves as failures in our secular lives. In the scheme of things, our failures are a tiny spec. The only failure we need concern ourselves is the tendency to ignore God. He needs to be front and centre, instead of like a doctor we visit when we get sick.
Our life is too short for self-pity. There is always someone who suffered worse than us, including Jesus Christ. Better we notice others' pain first.
