We
mistake our word for the Word of God. We speak our word as if we are
the creators. The columnist wants us prepared to receive the question:
Haven't you heartily spoken your own word, when you were sent into the world, instead of speaking God's word?
It's
not easy to understand what we are being asked to do here. We have the
examples of Abraham, Moses, and the prophets, but we desire to show off
ourselves. God wants us to exemplify his word and to carry it out in
our
lives. We are to be united in a relationship with God, merciful with
those we meet, and in harmony with the world. God has been speaking
through the world by inspiring us from the beginning of history. And
Jesus has shown us the unity, mercy and harmony in the world by the
example of his life.
During
the Chosen Dynasty, women were socially restricted. Because of male power and
male vested interests, women suffered much. What was central and missing in all
this was not understanding that the center of family life is not the husband nor the
wife nor the children; the center of family life is the mystery that is in God.
We
have difficulty in believing in the providence of God and very easily
trust in the
strength of our human resources. If the viruses we are exposed to
daily were slightly transformed, says the journalist, we could all die.
It is not what we see with
our eye that is important but the mostly unacknowledged graces that come
into our life each day: the sun that rises in the East, every day;
awakening in the morning, every day, among other commonly
taken-for-granted graces that make our life possible.
