In today's gospel the crowd gathered around Jesus and they were looking for a sign, something demonstrable in order to facilitate their assent to faith.
Oh how this generation longs for signs, longs for tangible proof to believe, to trust, to follow.
The scientific revolution as infiltrated into the recesses of our hearts and minds and has made us hard and resistant to that which is most real.
How often we get bogged down in doubt in our search for certainty. Yet, we lose sight of what is most certain in our search for the uncertain. It is the uncertain proofs that boggle the mind and leave us dark in doubt while the certainty of love and hope and faith abound from all angles if we had eyes to see.
To clamor for a sign is to refuse conversion. Conversion is not about changing what we see but about changing how we see. We must learn to stare at thing until it becomes strange and wonderful and filled with divine life, oozing with freshness even when it remains ordinary and just part and parcel of every day. The human face is ordinary as it comes yet it remains the vehicle for revealing the face of God. We just need to look again.
What is the sign of Jonah? The reason why Jonah was so effective was because he crawled from the belly of the whale and began to speak; as he spoke he still had the traces of death upon him. This experience authenticated his words, his invitation.
How much more does Christ, who on his body still contains the traces of death, the wounds of love? Does not his words and life remain authentic to those who hear because of what we see?
May we begin to see anew; let us take up our rosary beads and meditate on the life of Christ, let us walk the way of the cross and in these encounters we shall begin to learn to see Christ anew in the world around us, and truly our hearts will be set ablaze and our eyes will be filled with wonder as we behold something greater.
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