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In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
Wednesday of
20th Week OT
St. Luke’s
Institute
August 20, 2013
EQUAL PAY FOR
UNEQUAL WORK +++++++++++++++
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The
parable of the landowner and the laborers that we just heard presents a
conflict about equal pay for unequal work
ENVY
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Upset
laborers get wage that they had agreed to
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But
they R upset by landowner’s generosity 2 workers hired later in the day
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Landowner
asks stinging question: “Are you envious
because I am generous?”
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This
question cuts deeply becz it focuses on something that’s difficult 2 admit:
being envious
QUESTION OF WORTH
++++++++++++++++++++++++
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The
landowner’s question leads to a fundamental question for each of us
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Where
do we get our sense of self-worth?
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Do
we get it from earning more than others, from possessing more than others, from
accomplishing more than others?
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Do
others have to be lesser so that we can be greater, or lose so that we can win,
or have less so that we can have more?
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Does
R self-worth rest on these beliefs?
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Do
we come from abundance or from scarcity?
WORTH COMES FROM ++++++++++++++++++++++++
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J
wants us 2 remember that so much of what we R comes as an abundant gift of love
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E.g.,
every moment of R existence? Gift from G!
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Our
birth? A gift of our parents!
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R
ed & mentoring? Gift of teachers & role models
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Our
relationship with God and our hope for resurrection? Yes, a gift from Jesus,
the Son of God who is pure love, love itself!
GET ROOTED IN OUR
WORTH +++++++++++++++++++
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So
R self-worth comes from being loved
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If
we remember this and through our daily prayer and presence get really rooted in
this love, then we can rejoice that others are also loved and gifted
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We
can die to the self-absorbed, affronted ego of the laborers hired early in the
day
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We
can live from a center that is absorbed in the love of Jesus that empties
itself for others and takes great joy in their well-being too
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