Attitude
In the Gospel (John 8:51-59) the frustration Jesus must have felt with the disrespectful Jews in questioning his authority and ancestry made him say to them, "I tell you most solemnly, before Abraham ever was, I AM." - a language the Jews understood to be God; but on hearing that, they picked up stones to throw at him. With a closed heart and their stubborn attitude, they could not accept Jesus.
It is still not too late for us to open our hearts and mind to Jesus and his teachings...to learn more about how we can love and forgive others; to overlook the pettiness and inconsequential things of this world and instead spend our time to spread peace and goodwill around. The compassion Jesus showed to the blind, the lame, the deaf and mute, the sick, the mentally ill...as written in the Gospels should also move our hearts to see the pain and sufferings of these people; and to help them within our own capacity.
Sickness and tragedy can befall anyone at any time. The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in north-east Japan should be lesson to us that events can be unexpected and that life is short. Within a few hours, the lives of hundreds of thousand of people were changed forever. They never expect it. Neither do we, for any disaster. The best preparation is to live a life of peace, not harming anyone either in words or deeds; to be a responsible citizen and to live as our Lord taught us..with love, compassion, charity and mercy. If we faithfully do that, we will not be afraid when the time comes for us to meet our Creator.
The ultimate test of your greatness is
the way you treat every human being.
- Pope John Paul II-
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