After the “dance of the seven veils” (according to legend) King Herod Agrippa promised Salome anything she wanted “even to half of my kingdom.” She asked for the head of John the Baptist on a platter. He knew it wasn’t right. He didn’t want to do it. But because of his oaths and the guests he did not wish to break his word to her. How often in our lives do we do things not because we think its the right thing to do but because everyone else is doing it? How often does the way we think about things come, not from our own prayerful reflection, but simply as an echo of what the prevailing opinion is? We must find God in all things.
