Weekly Readings Reflections: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Our readings for the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time are:

One of the biggest mistakes that couples can make is to put their relationship on autopilot while they go and attend to more urgent matters. Truth is, there are no more urgent matters. That sacramental relationship is a source of life to your family and community. It deserves, nay demands steady attention and development. So it is with the relationship that we need to have with Godly wisdom.
In the past, how have you grown in wisdom?
How are you growing lately?
How does wisdom strengthen your relationship with God Himself?
Would you identify wisdom with the Holy Spirit?
How does that change the way that you look at the Holy Spirit?

When I was young, I appreciated God for giving me what I wanted, when I wanted it. Of course, God's will lining up with mine was both rare and random. Later, I learned to praise God for gently giving me the chance to learn that His plan would work out in the end. Later still, I learned that God alone really knows what "work out" really means. Freeing and terrifying at the same time.
When you take the time to praise God, what do you praise Him for?
How personal is that list of praiseworthy things that God has done, praiseworthy traits that God has shown?
As you have experienced those gifts of God, what have you learned about Him?
What would you like to be able to praise God for?

One way to structure your life is to develop a list of things that you want to accomplish before you die, and then organize the rest of your life around getting all of those things done. As an alternative, what would it be like to always be in the right place, at the right time, speaking into that situation exactly what is needed, doing just what the circumstances call for. Wouldn't you want that instead?
How hard do you think it might be to achieve that "right place, right time, right action, right words" lifestyle?
Would that be something that you get to once, and then just let that sort of judgement and wisdom just coast?
Would it be worth the effort?

We are born with a deep hunger for meaning. We don't want to live lives that don't matter. But it's easy to get confused by the glitter that surrounds us, into believing that there are a thousand things that will satisfy that hunger. Some of them are adulation of our peers, success of one sort or another, trophies of one sort or another.
How do you find meaning in the Eucharist?
How does your Sunday worship inform, illuminate, give meaning to the rest of your week?
How can you better prepare for communal worship?

Shalom!

Weekly Readings Reflections