There’s a beautiful rainbow in my garden, and I hadn’t noticed it until this week’s photo challenge! Introducing Mr. Roy G. Biv, back yard edition.
I had fun with the challenge…mostly because I love rainbows. I always drew them as a kid, and even now, if I see a real one in the sky, I stop what I’m doing and enjoy it.
It’s so full of promise. (GN 9: 8-15)
Every time I read or hear today’s gospel I can’t help but think of Harry Potter fans worldwide getting a dose of evangelization that perhaps they weren’t expecting.
I love a good story, and I especially love a good story that is controversial — it makes you think. Or at least, it makes me think. Some are opposed to the series as a kind of gateway drug to witchcraft. Others embrace it for it’s themes of love:
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13
It’s most powerful reference comes toward the end of the series in Godric’s Hollow, when Harry discovers a tombstone for Dumbledore’s family with the following engraved on it:
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
That’s today’s gospel reading. It’s from Matthew Chapter 6, verses 19-21. Actually, today’s reading runs to verse 23. It’s a good thing to read and reflect on the whole piece, not just one isolated line. Content may be king, but context gives it power. You can watch a brief reflection on this scriptural passage here.
Where are your treasures? What does your heart follow?
Saw this on a holy card tacked up in an overfull cork board in my kitchen. Thought I’d share — how often do we let our fears paralyze us when a little leap of faith is all we need to achieve our dreams?
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Saint John XXIII
