LIGHT AND GROWTH OF THE LIVING
It's the Light
of Christ in us that brings growth throughout our lives, which is wonderful and
mysterious…
Don't stand
still, that is not living!
St. Paul asked the
Corinthians in today's first reading to think about a seed which is planted in
the ground in a form of death like a person who is buried. That which rises
from what can be called the grave of the earth is not just a seed, but a full
blown plant. There is an identity of the plant with the seed, but the
differences are much greater than the similarities. Nourished by water and soil
and energized by the sun the seed undergoes an amazing transformation. We take
the facts of agriculture for granted, but the first person to plant a seed must
have found it difficult to believe that a beautiful, magnificent tree would be
the result of an insignificant, tiny seed.
The resurrection
for us will be something like that. Nourished by the Body and Blood of Jesus
Christ and energized by His life-giving Spirit, we will rise to a new life,
body and soul. We will be the same person, but the differences between what we
are now and what we will then be are beyond our powers to imagine. It's the
Light of Christ in us that brings growth throughout our lives, which is
wonderful and mysterious.
In the Responsorial
Psalm we acclaim, "I will walk in the presence of God, in the light of the
living" (Ps 56:14). To live is to walk; to keep going forward; to open new
paths; to scan new horizons.
Don't stand still,
that is not living!