We live in a society where literacy is taken for granted. The ability to read and teach others is a skill that helps people learn more quickly and grow in confidence to apply what they have learned. Yet in a society that can know so much there often needs to be a greater level of discernment about what we read and whether it helps us to grow in our relationship with God and with others. It is all too easy in an age where information is prepackaged, edited, and targeted to particular audiences that we can lose a critical element of our own ability to know what is good for us. We can discover that others can deluge us with information, especially through social media, television, radio, and other mediums that we often want to push the pause button.
This is where the Gospel passage we start to notice a longing to meet the person of Jesus. Not as a prepackaged commodity but as a true encounter that helps our hearts to expand in fidelity and integrity in discovering the truth about God. This is where we need to become people of prayer who can study our environment and act in a way that reflects that relationship. God seeks for us to allow ourselves a quiet space where we can be alone with the Word of God and reflect on how we will live that daily.
As we come closer to the end of Lent, the world slows down for a short while. We can pause to take a breath and look at how we commit ourselves to discovering the person of Jesus who walks close by our side. In these moments we start to discover that our lives are called to grow in that relationship especially when we struggle to make sense of the world in which we live. Trust in God that we can learn to know the Lord not just know about him.
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