The one who shares my table will rise up against me. I tell you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen,
you may know that I am He. Truly, I say to you, whoever welcomes the one I send, welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me,
welcomes the One who sent me.”
REFLECTION:
Each one of us, in our own unique and unrepeatable way, messengers of the Good News.
There is but one person and one message we preach, of course: Jesus.
And yet the manner by which we proclaim him and his message will not be the same, because we are all unique, we are all different.
We all have our gifts, our talents, our abilities, but also our faults, weaknesses, challenges, and inadequacies.
As such, we should never compare ourselves to others. We should never begrudge others their gifts;
we should never see ourselves as any less than others because we do not possess what they have.
At the same time, we must never look down on them for not having the gifts we have been given.
Each one of us has a unique role to play in the history of God’s ongoing work of bringing all things back to himself.
Pray for the grace of humility – the grace of recognizing who and what we are, no more and no less.
For this is how God sees us; it is also how God loves us: in our unrepeatable uniqueness.
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