Reflection on God's Request for Blessings and Burdens

Homily from the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Does God have permission to say "I want it back?"

We are all living on borrowed time. And borrowed gifts...and borrowed strengths... Everything we have has been loaned to us from God. At some point, God will interrupt our lives and will ask for His gifts back. He will interrupt our lives and ask for us to return all that has been entrusted to us. Will we be free enough to say "Here it is. I hope that the way I used it glorified You."?

Mass Readings from July 14, 2024:

Amos 7:12-15

Psalms 85:9-14

Ephesians 1:3-14

Mark 6:7-13