Today is the birthday of Blaise Pascal. He was a scientist, he was also a thinker. He spent the first part
of his life creating and calculating. HE spent the later as a monk thinking and meditating.
Here are a few of his thoughts:
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room....
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't....
Certainly worth pondering. Especially the first. Have you sat still in a room lately?
It is from Blaise Pascal we get what is known as PAscal's wager. It goes something like this:
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Now to the gospel of the day.
Jesus shares these words with us from the pen of St. Matthew:
"But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the good and the bad, causes rain to fall on the just and unjust."
That you may be children of your heavenly Father. In order for us to embrace our calling as children of God then we must imitate in our lives the action of God.
We must do as he does!
Do we love those who God loves?
Our reputation is not about us but rather it is about God above.
Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Treat everyone equally. We cannot let our feelings determine our love.
Just a little thought in light of Psalm 23. Psalm 23 starts the lord is my shepherd.
There is a verse in this Psalm that goes as follows: "YOU set a table before me in sight of my foes."
Imagine sitting at the table prepared for us by God only to discover that who we thought were enemies are sitting across from us. In the face of God all fades away and becomes clear.
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