MONDAY THOUGHT 9/14/09

September 14, 2009 on 1:18 pm | By | In Faith & Forgiveness | No Comments
Your Spiritual Resume
 
These days, with jobs gone or teetering on the brink, many folks are dusting off their resumes — that two-page brag sheet designed to impress the socks off total strangers with the ability to give you a fist of money every two weeks.
 
Well, what about our spiritual resumes?  How do they look?  On one hand, Jesus never seemed to review them.  He just walked down the shore and called to a handful of apparent strangers, “Follow me.”  And He got a bunch of guys who many of us wouldn’t ask to do clean-up on our yards.  (He seemed to fare better with the women, who stuck by Him steadfastly through thick and thin.) 
 
My point:  What would we have on our spiritual resume?  Perfect church attendance would be nice.  Good works, certainly.  But it seems to me that the job qualifications as a Jesus worker would be more like:  “Loves neighbor; loves the Lord; knows how to ask God for help and forgiveness.”  And that’s about it.  – jri
 
“I don’t think Jesus was checking resumes when
he picked the Twelve.  He just said, ’Follow me,’
and they did.”
        –    Father Jim Trainor    

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