The Fiery, Dividing Tongues of God's Love
Children’s Homily: Life is a team sport.
Fr. Tom Seitz, Jr. 8/14/22
When I was your age, I competed on my hometown swim team. Our final and largest swim meet included five or six at an Olympic-sized pool in a nearby city. So many swimmers came hoping to win a medal or a ribbon that they had to hold preliminary races to find out who the six fastest swimmers were in each event for the final, decisive race. Doing that took all morning.
The final races started after lunch, beginning with the youngest swimmers - eight and under and ten and under - and moving on to the middle and high school swimmers, so I didn’t have to wait very long to compete. The first time I won a gold, silver, or bronze medal, I was, of course, very eager to receive my award right away, but my older teammates told me that’s not how it worked.
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It's Just Paper
It is my hope that our lessons this morning give each of us cause to reflect on the question of where we find our security, and in that happiness. If it is found in personal items, our investments or material things, then my question is, what are you willing to trade for it? We are making a trade whether we realize it or not. Sometimes its family, those whom we hold dearest, many times its relationships. Where do we find security?
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Prayer Shapes Life
Meg and I are very blessed with our kids. We have spoken to each of them in the last week and several of them multiple times. A couple of them call Meg almost every day. Sometimes we call them. Lately we get to FaceTime with Mabel and I’m on a constant quest to find ways to make her smile. Motorboat sounds work well lately. Meg talks to her dad every day. My parents feel like they talk to me almost every day because they watch this service and Compline, but I do try to talk to them every week.
With our kids and our parents, we might talk about anything from the weather to a movie or whatever the latest challenges or news may be in our lives. All of that conversation is life-giving because we love each other. We never stop being parents or children, in a sense, but it’s nice when that takes on friendship as well. Whether it’s family or a friend, we treasure such intimacy and trust.
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