God's Heavently Symphony
Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Daniel 7:2-14
Daniel 3:75-81
Luke 21:29-3
A reflection on today's Scripture:
Here in the northeastern part of the United States, winter approaches early. The days get
shorter the temperature starts to tumble down each month. Everything seems to go from life
to lifeless, green to brown; the aroma of sweet flowers and alfalfa changes to an earthy
smell of dead leaves and grass.
Yet the first snow seems to bring a sense of purification to the earth. There also seems
to be a new life germinating under the white blanket of the fresh snow. This process
brings hope of a new springtime that lies ahead. All of nature lies dormant waiting for
that day and time when the sun and its warmth will draw forth life. When that day arrives
everything of nature explodes with praise to its maker. Life rises again with sweet smells
of greenery.
In all this are we not more pleasing in Gods eyes? Heaven so close to the touch; but can
we see? Even the fig tree can't contain itself to a dormant life. It knows that if it is
to bare fruit, it must blossom. God's heavenly symphony is playing all around us. Why do
we hesitate to enter into the song?
- Thomas Michael Kalamas