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Spiritual Thought
Thirty years ago I celebrated my first Christmas away
from home. I was in Italy in the seminary at the time.
Knowing I had a little homesickness, mom and dad took
a tape recorder and placed it under the tree and pushed
the record button when they started to unwrap the gifts.
The next day they sent the tape and five days later I got
to hear what everyone got for Christmas. I enjoyed the
tape so much that it became a Christmas tradition. Four or five years later my
brother decided to up-grade the process and he took his camcorder and made
a video of the ceremonial unwrapping of the gifts. Later they called me and
said, Hey Peter, guess what we did. I told them that it was great but the
only problem was we didnt have a VCR or a TV in the seminary. Needless
to say they didnt send the video and I never did see it. Twenty-five years
later, my brother sent me a Christmas present. I said, What is this? and I
popped it in. It was the video my brother made twenty-five years ago. It was
pretty slow in drama and slow in action but I was in a state of absolute
amazement. It was the first time since my mother died that I could hear her
voice. I saw her walking around and not confined in the wheelchair. I
thought to myself, I may not have realized it at the time but Twenty-five years
ago I was a blessed man.
After Jesus rose from the dead, after He ascended into heaven and
after the follows of Christ finally realized that Jesus was the Son of God. The
early Christians started to pull out the old videos of the past. They took a
second look at old memories that Mary had held in her heart. And they were
amazed at what they saw. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Bethlehem in
Hebrew means house of bread. That means the Bread of Life was born in
the house of bread and placed in a manger, a place for fodder. The followers
of Jesus started to make all kinds of interesting connections. Another
example is Jesus time in Egypt. Early Christians looked back at that story
and saw another connection. Moses also was sent to Egypt and when he left,
a nation was born. They recalled what Hosea said, Out of Egypt, I will call
My Son. They saw a lot of things after the fact. Christians saw that there
was a lot of thought went into the Divine plan. But what about these events
while they were taking place. In the middle of the night, Joseph was awoken
by an angel and told to go to Egypt because King Herod wanted to destroy the
child. I dont think Joseph saw Divine plan in the middle of the night. In
fact, if the angel appeared to me, I would have said, Excuse me, but may I
make a suggestion? Instead of sending us on a dangerous journey with a new
born child, wouldnt it be easier if you just took out King Herod, perhaps a
lightening bolt or a falling piano out of the sky? I dont think I would have
understood the Divine Will in the middle of the night, not as Christians
twenty-five years later.
Tonight will be a typical night for me. After I say mass, someone
will find their car was towed and I will have to make a trip to the tow lot. Or
perhaps I will check my cell phone to see if one of the five hundred nurses
that have my number needs a priest. Or perhaps do a little reading before I go
to sleep. What ever happens tonight will not be ordinary, not with God in my
life. God has a plan. I may not know what it is but I know that I am blessed
to be in His plan.
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