Tuesday, December 16
Zep 3:1-2, 9-13/Mt 21:28-32
“This son said in reply, ‘No, I will not’; but afterward he regretted it and went.” Mt. 21
So often I am that second son. Maybe I don’t come right out and say, “no” to God, but I do complain, sometimes rant and rave, and often try to avoid. I ask every imaginable question, look for alternatives, any way out. Then I argue that this cannot be what God is asking of me. Oh, no! It couldn’t be; there has to be some mistake. Right!
But after all that, like the second son, I go out into the vineyard to do the work. Amazingly, after all is said and done, I can’t figure out what the hubbub was about! God must be smiling.
Mantra: The vineyard awaits my yes.
Dianne Baumunk OSU
