“The Same Attitude” by Melanie Rigney
Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and, found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. (Philippians 2:5-8)
I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people. (Psalm 22:26a)
Then the Master of the house in a rage commanded his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in here the poor and the crippled, the blind and the lame.’ The servant reported, ‘Sir, your orders have been carried out, and still there is room.’ The Master then ordered the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled. For, I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.’” (Luke 14:21-24)
Piety
Jesus, help me to reflect Your love.
Study
It’s here. The day that sometimes felt it would never come.
Oh, I’m not naïve enough to believe that this all will be decided by the time I go to bed tonight. But I am naïve enough or optimistic enough or faith-filled enough to believe that if we wrap ourselves in the attitude of humility and obedience as Paul so beautifully describes in today’s first reading, we’ll get through this.
But what about (fill in the blank)? Where’s the attitude of humility and obedience there?
I haven’t a clue. But I have faith that God will lead us through whatever is to come. And that doubting that is much like those who found a reason to decline the Master’s dinner invitation.
Trust—or you may never taste the
dinner.
Action
Pray for a candidate for whom you didn’t vote.
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