I was reading a novel this morning, and a passage struck me as interesting. A mother said to her kids each morning, as she held out her two hands to them, “we are offered each day a cup of joy and a cup of sorrow. Which one will you choose today?” These words stayed with me as we left to go to church. I found myself unable to stop thinking about them during the drive there.
When the readings began in church, the first reading went like this: “If you choose, you can keep the commandments, and to act faithfully is a matter of your own choice. He has placed before you fire and water; stretch out your hand for whichever you choose. Before each person are life and death, and whichever one chooses will be given.” Sirach 15:15-17 I would beg to differ with anyone who says that God doesn't speak to us. I don't think a message could be much clearer. I don't think that all messages from God are this direct, but I believe that a lot of the time we are so absorbed in our own issues that we don't hear God even when the message is this clear. Thank you, God, for reminding me to listen.
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