Once a grandfather suffered a deep betrayal and was in turmoil. His grandson who noticed that asked, “Grandpa, what is wrong?”
The grandpa said to him, “there are two wolves fighting inside me. One is called anger and the other is called forgiveness. The grandson thought for a while and asked, “while one will win grandpa?”The grandfather looked at him for a while and said, “the one which I feed”.
In today’s gospel, the Pharisees and Scribes who were afraid to become selfless and generous, who were afraid to help the poor and the needy like Our Lord Jesus Christ, said to Him, “who will follow your teachings. They are very hard and challenging and thus they went away from Him”.They misinterpreted the bible and God’s way by feeding the wrong wolf.When Jesus broke their approaching by His miracles and teachings, they left Him. But Jesus never stopped loving them.
Once after ten years of being a disciple, a man became a teacher and then one day, he went to visit his master who taught him the power of prayer and the teachings of Christ our Lord.The master was so happy to welcome him and then he asked him, “son, when you came in…did you leave your shoes by the door?”
The man said, “yes…master. I did”“did you leave them on the right side or on left side?”He did not know the answer. He then realized that he had not yet attained full awareness and then he became his disciple for ten more years.
In today’s gospel, Jesus looked at His disciples and said, “Do you also wish to leave?”Simon Peter said, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life”Even our life time is not enough to learn the love and kindness of Jesus. His every word has power and healing.
What are those eternal words? Jesus himself is the living words and anyone listens to him, will have life everlasting.By eating his body and drinking his blood, we too become his words of eternal source for those who are away from God and are struggling to experience his love and kindness, so let us be his witnesses of everlasting love, Amen.
