Walking with Jesus: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8; James 1:17-18, 21-22, 27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 How am I responding to God’s law of love? Am I selective in giving, caring, forgiving, helping? Do I see that every person who comes into my life each day, even if it is for only a few seconds, is a person God loves and cares for -- and therefore I could be the person God has chosen to reach out to that person? I may say it’s impossible, I don’t have the time, I have important things to do and places to go. How would I respond to God? When I look at my life, I so often can see that the one who touched me in my time of need just happened to be the “good Samaritan” who was present with a helping hand. Being from New York, I loved to go to the Big City. One of my favorite hobbies was to stand at the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway and watch the people walk across the crosswalk. I would play my mental gymnastics game and try to imagine where they were from … what was on their minds … where were they going … wh...