of heart; and you will find rest. For my yoke is good and my burden is light.”
Reflect
The most pervasive illness in today’s society isn’t cancer, malaria, or the flu. It’s exhaustion.
Otherwise healthy people spend their days struggling to make it through until bedtime which
gets later every day. Modern forms of communication mean that we can watch news happen
in real time and we can communicate with people on the other side of the world almost
instantaneously. We no longer have to wait for a messenger, letter, or newspaper to arrive.
That immediacy has changed people’s expectations. They grow impatient if they don’t
get a response or solution with equal speed. Our jobs invade every hour of our day, with
resulting damage to family life. Pressure increases and we start believing that this is the
way life is supposed to be.
But today’s Gospel reminds us that this frenetic pace is not what God desires for us. God
calls us to step away from the pressures of daily life and rest in him. For God, the only
immediacy is love. We can all take a moment to be more patient with others, to limit our
demands on those who work with us, and to let love, not the clock, rule our lives.
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