Slim Pickings5/28/2024 Tuesday of the 8th Week in OT
After 50 days of rich fare for the Sunday and daily Scriptures, I find the return to weekday readings in Ordinary Time offers “slim pickings.” There’s not much to choose from that is stimulating my prayer and imagination. Since I like to have something to share for a reflection, I may ignore the daily readings and see if something else in nature, for example, may ignite my imagination. Since this is Laudato Si! Week, it’s appropriate to look to creation for inspiration. This morning that inspiration came from seeing a tiny birdy “pecking” all around her on the porch. I’m sure she was “hunting and pecking” for some seed or other food source. Seeing her “pecking,” I thought of the expression, ‘Where are you in the pecking order?” I thought of the hierarchical pecking order in the Church, and realized these days that I am very low on that pecking order. But that led me to wonder, “Is there a pecking order in God’s eyes?” Are any of us in a lower caste in God’s eyes? We human beings want order, structure and hierarchy. Our Church certainly does but doesn’t each of us have an equal dignity before God? But then again, there may be a reverse pecking order in God’s realm where the “first shall be last and the last shall be first.” So, I can identify with that little bird, “hunting and pecking” around for something meaningful to say when there are such “slim pickings” or should I say “slim peckings? Although the scriptures for today may offer slim pickings, creation in this season has more than enough to offer. Look at the photo of the fuchsia above. And the “Rhodos” are exploding with color and vibrancy these days. Thanks be to God for such beauty!
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