Matthew 11, 16-19
‘But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to one another, “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.” For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, “He has a demon”; the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.’
As I read today's assigned gospel, I am reminded of the tendency to make a judgement about life or people by looking at only the surface. God's message is in the understory of appearances. Yet, human society places the major emphasis on how things "look".
Perhaps this season more than any other tempts us to glaze households and relationships over with glimmer and glitze that may mask what is "really" going on. Yet, Jesus' song, his compassionate tears, and the reality of his counsel and comfort will sprout from the deepest soil of what is "really" happening--the deepest desire, the deepest fear, the place where we long for the gift of his presence.
The surface of this season is beautiful, indeed....but He appears in the understory....take time to be aware of what is really going on...watch...wait...He is approaching!
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