Reflection.
Todays Gospel: Luke 13:1-9.
Some Galileans were killed by Pilot and the question was brought to Jesus why had God allowed this to happen. Was it because these Galileans were worse sinners than everyone else. Jesus said no, but that those listening if they did not repent, they would also perish.
How not Why
How is usually a better question that why.
How opens the way, why narrows the way.
How tends towards the future, why tends towards the past.
How is imaginative, why is definitive.
How do we find our place amid uncertainty and turmoil?
How do we not lose ourselves to the pain and tragedies of our lives and world?
How do we keep ourselves in the midst of conflict and violence?
How do we sharpen our vision to see more clearly?
How do we keep our hearts soft and keep hope?
How do we live amidst death?
“Repent”. That was Jesus’ answer to the how question and he says it twice in today’s
gospel. “Unless you repent you will all perish just as they did”
This is our choice, life or death