May the Lord bless you with grace, and peace in the Holy Spirit.
It is 22nd January 2022.
We reflect on 2 Samuel 1: 1-4, 11-12, 17, 19, 23-27 and Mark 3: 20-21.
Magnanimity mesmerizes memories and manifests mercy beyond the frontiers of friendships.
Friends beautify our lives and beatify our unsettled emotions and behaviours. The eulogy of David to Saul and Jonathan ignites the emotions of love, hope and respect for the other no matter what they have done, said, and left to him. Death pacifies the passages of hearts filled with rage and hurts.
Grief and grievances of the loss can tear our minds and mastery to fragments and pieces. Hearing the demise of Saul and Jonathan, David grieved. Losing a friend in life is like nearly losing a chapter of happiness in the personal book of life. Acquiring a new friend does not compensate for the fulfilment and contentment of the friendship we cherished with the person moved out and mowed down to the dust. The death of a friend is not the death of friendship, but it is a celebration of love, generosity, and heroism in life.
Critics are critiqued everywhere while the exemplars are amplified by the illustration of lives.
The relatives of Jesus captured Him and considered Him to be a person “gone out of mind.” Have you been in a situation like Jesus? The theme of rejection of Jesus by those who benefited from Him could be seen in our lives too. For being, doing and speaking good, Jesus is mistreated and misunderstood as a man who needed serious treatment. Jesus always wanted a closer relationship with those who listened to Him, healed by Him and being with Him than those of His family of origin.
Even if death cannot help us to forget the past, we all need to be inclusive and broader minded and have hearts to look at new realities and relationships with the unbridled spectacles of life. May God bless you.