We live in a society which honors wealth. Even our children are urged to go to school so they will have a good paying job. The Bible warns us that wealth should not be our be all and end all. We read in the Book of Proverbs: Better a vegetable dinner with love than a stall-fattened ox with hate (Proverbs 15:18). In the Book of Tobit the angel Raphael says: A little with righteousness is better than abundance with wickedness. in the Magnificat Mary prays that God has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He has sent away empty. There is a wonderful scene in Fiddler in the Roof where Tevye is talking about his recently married daughter who passed up marrying a wealthy man to marry the one she loved. “They are as poor as squirrels in winter. But they are both so happy, they don’t know how miserable they are.” May we all live and act in love for truly we will never know misery no matter how it looks to others.
JUNE102023
By Church Staff
