ACCEPTING AND CHOOSING
The theme for our meditation today is: Accepting and Choosing. In every normal family or community of people or organization, the use of uniformity and generalization system is not always a good and recommendable practice in dealing with one another. Therefore, it is essentially important that the practice of dealing with every human person as unique and precious being should be the truth that we all respect.
This principle should be our basic standard to treat everyone differently. This principle is also the basic reference for us to build a family or community, that we can make use of each different potential for the good of many and all. God has bestowed every uniqueness on every person. He blesses every man and woman, and He also calls everyone to follow His path to reach perfection by developing that uniqueness of every person.
In the context of the today's gospel, one can imagine the story of a family that had welcomed Jesus to its home; it would be a very different story than what we have from that Gospel narration, if Mary and Martha did not have uniqueness of each one of them. The gift found in Martha actually representing all the gifts from all human beings, who are gifted of receiving or welcoming. This really signifies a specific human ability and also a divine gift.
God has enriched in each of us this particular gift, so that we can receive and welcome something or someone, to become part of our lives. It will be very meaningful, when we make use this gift to welcome or receive what can make good impact into our personal communal life, what is useful and supporting our life both physically and spiritually. For this reason, we indeed have the obligation not to accept what would come to destroy or damage our life.
God has also placed in each of us the gift of choosing, which in today’s gospel reading is represented by Mary. The Lord Himself explicitly says that this particular gift has a greater quality as to compare with the work of receiving or welcoming. Mary is said to have chosen the better way in the practice of faith. Why is it better that the former one? May this comparison will not first of all to contradict one person to another, or even to separate and divide one from another.
One important thing we can be sure of would be this: in accepting or welcoming we allow many things or people in the name of love and good will to grow to become a better person among our fellow men and women. However, when we have chosen someone or something, we have made a selection or preference, and that choice made should be the best of all that we can obtain and treasure.
Let's pray. In the name of the Father... O most loving Jesus, purify our minds and hearts so that we can choose what is the best for our life. Hail Mary full of grace... In the name of the Father...
