Good Friday 2019

THE ABUNDANCE OF GOD We said yesterday that THIS is the instruction manual.  This is the path.  At its most basic level, what we learn from last night – the Last Supper and the washing of the feet - is that the love of God and love of neighbor are not two commands, but one.  Our service to one another breaks down the scarcity mentality that usually drives our decisions and actions.  Our service to each other challenges our competitive mindset and upsets our imposed pecking orders.  The service that flows from our encounter with God in the sacrament reminds us that we will always have enough because the well-spring will never be exhausted.  But service is not simply a decision.  Today reminds us that service, in God’s name, is a sacrifice.  Because this isn’t just doing some random act of kindness (thought that can be part of it) – the service to which we are called – the service with our participation the in the communion of God requires will stretch us. It will require that give everything, if we take it seriously.  It requires THIS.  It requires the death of our own ego.  But death gives way to life.  And emptiness allows for abundance.  The more of yourself that you allowed to be carved away, the more abundant you allow God to be.