Little

My God is the God of small things.  He is the God of little acts of kindness.  He is the God of little souls and little hearts and little faiths.  He is the God of little hopes and little dreams.  He is their God because He enters into little things to make them more.  He once entered into a little world as a little person.  He lived a short life, and spent most of it quietly working and doing little things.  He died as the least of men, condemned as a criminal.  He enters my little heart as a little morsel, a small drop.  He would make us all as great as He is, even in our smallness.

Purpose

The problem of purpose isn't that we don't know it.  Nothing could be more apparent!  It stares us in the face!  Our purpose is to love.  No, the problem is that we don't know how to love, or who, or when.  But God is not a trickster.  Blessed Mother Teresa said that the first ones we should help are always those closest to us.  God has placed you exactly where He wants you, that you may love those you encounter every day.  He gives us all what we need, us to them, them to us.

Mountains

To do small things with great love is the secret to having a faith that moves mountains.  Christ doesn't give us faith to perform flashy miracles to glorify ourselves.  He gives us faith that we might labor in small things, moving one pebble at a time, so slowly - but with great love - so that from Eternity we might see the mountains moved, the souls touched.  Just imagine: were we to see the mountain to be moved, we would despair.  Our little souls would know their weakness, would faint at the thought of attempting so vast a task.  Instead, the Lord gives us a few talents, and asks us to spend them wisely.  And when found trustworthy with these little things, gives us greater tasks.  But always we are with Him, and He shares in our burden, yoked to us, and gives to us only that share of the weight which we can handle, that we might grow stronger.

Unique

Sinners always think their sins unique.  It is the Saints who are different.  Sin is tedious and tiresome in its sameness, its slavery is almost in its monotony.  Only the Saints break the chain and enter into true freedom, which is why the Saints are as varied and beautiful as the flowers in the field.

Caesar

"Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and render unto God that which is God's."

Now that the election is finally over (praise God!), and those of you who have been frothing at the mouth with politcal zealotry for the last several months can finally relax and think rationally again, I have something I would like to point out:

First, to those of you who are religious, specifically the Christians.  What on Earth is wrong with you?  Christ is King no matter who is elected President of the United States of America.  The United States are not the Kingdom on Earth, nor do we have a divine mandate or miraculous nature as such.  We are just another country, just another empire, one doomed to rise, and eventually fall.  And yet you have wasted untold energy, hours of time, millions of dollars, and most importantly, your own hearts and selves on this election.  I don't even particularly care which candidate you suppported, all of you, every one, have given more of your selves to Caesar than to God, and it is your self which is most emphatically God's.  Time for some soul-searching folks.  All of your fear and your frenzy has not gotten you what you wanted.  Had you spent that energy in evangelization, imagine what you could have accomplished.

To those of you who are not religious, again, I don't much care which candidate you voted for, I just want you to look at the numbers of this election.  Quite literally billions of dollars were spent on this, a large chunk of which were spent on ads which I do believe had all of us, regardless of our political proclivities, ready to smash our televisions in at least a month before the election even arrived.  And a lot of which came from major corporations and "super-PACs" who were supporting both candidates, because hey, it's not like they were all that different.  Easier to win when both guys are in your pocket.  Look at the amount of time and energy and work that went into maintaining a fever pitch of partisan attacks on both candidates, and look at how much you invested yourself into it.  Was it worth it?  I doubt it.

To all of you, religious and secuar alike, imagine a world where all that time, money, and energy were spent on actually doing good.  Things we can all agree on, like feeding the hungry or caring for the homeless.  Next election, why not try something better?  Instead of spending money on corrupt politicians, investing all of your self in a party or a person who are only going to screw you over in the end anyway, and becoming a zombie like zealot devoid of any opinion of your own, donate to a food pantry, or spend a few hours volunteering at a shelter.  Do good.  Make a few friends while you're at it, even.  Our country's problems are not going to be solved by others for us, we need to get out there and be better people.  That will go a long way towards making this a better place.

Death

God Himself has tasted death.  Of what shall we be afraid?