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Daily Scripture, July 7, 2014

Scripture:

Hosea 2:16, 17b-18, 21-22
Matthew 9:18-26

Reflection:

Did you ever notice how we don’t all see events in our lives the same way? My family loves to reminisce at gatherings. What occurs to me when we do, is that despite the fact we grew up in the same household, had the same parents, and shared many of the same events we all seem to recall them differently, so much so, I sometimes think we must have grown up in different households.

Today’s Gospel selection tells of how Jesus saw things differently from those around him and was able to bring new life to his world:

"When Jesus arrived at the official’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd who were making a commotion, he said, "Go away! The girl is not dead but sleeping."* And they ridiculed him.  When the crowd was put out, he came and took her by the hand, and the little girl arose. (Mt 9: 23-25)

I pray that I may have the eyes of Faith and see life as Jesus did and as Rogers and Hammerstein suggest in the song A Hundred Million Miracles from  The Flower Drum Song 1958.

"…A swallow in Tasmania
Is sitting on her eggs

And suddenly
Those eggs have wings

And eyes and beaks and legs


A hundred million miracles


A little girl in Chungking
Just thirty inches tall

Decides that she
Will try to walk

And nearly doesn’t fall


A hundred million miracles

Miracle of making music 
When an idle poet

Puts words on a page

Writes on a page

With his brush

A musical friend

Writes the notes to blend

Suggested
 By an idle thrush



Then a young soprano
 Reads what they wrote

Learns every note

Every word 
Puts all they wrote

In her lovely throat

And suddenly

A song is heard 
Very pretty.

 

Dan O’Donnell is a Passionist Partner and a longtime friend of the Passionists.  He lives in Chicago.  

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