Today's first reading from James speaks of those who store up treasure for the last days, while withholding just wages from workers and turning a deaf ear to the poor.
I could not help but think of the treasures I run after in my life. Sometimes they are prestige, success, efficiency, and other values that I can keep under my control. When I do that, I just don't get it. I forget too easily that though these attributes can be used for good, they are not the be-all or the end-all of my life.
Still, when I catch myself letting an unfinished project throw my day out of sync or I lose my "cool" when I may be ignored while another is praised, these incidents can become blessings in disguise. How? Well, they can reveal to me my own inner poverty, the inner need I have to divest myself of the attitudes and "treasures" that take me away from my only TREASURE, Christ Jesus.
Resurrection Spirituality asks me to get up again and again, when I lose my focus and chase after the kind of treasures that are not lasting. James 5:1-6 bring this to consciousness for me today.
I could not help but think of the treasures I run after in my life. Sometimes they are prestige, success, efficiency, and other values that I can keep under my control. When I do that, I just don't get it. I forget too easily that though these attributes can be used for good, they are not the be-all or the end-all of my life.
Still, when I catch myself letting an unfinished project throw my day out of sync or I lose my "cool" when I may be ignored while another is praised, these incidents can become blessings in disguise. How? Well, they can reveal to me my own inner poverty, the inner need I have to divest myself of the attitudes and "treasures" that take me away from my only TREASURE, Christ Jesus.
Resurrection Spirituality asks me to get up again and again, when I lose my focus and chase after the kind of treasures that are not lasting. James 5:1-6 bring this to consciousness for me today.
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