Word to the Wise
Friday, June 18, 2010 - Friday in the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
[2 Kings 11:1-4, 9-18, 20 and Matthew 6:19-23]For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
Back in prehistoric times when television was in black and white, I admit to having watched the Mickey Mouse Club program. (It didn't take me too long to repent!) I remember there was a segment about a treasure that some young folks my age (then!) were looking for, hidden by a Mr. Applegate. What has stuck in my memory is the tune that introduced the segment, a line like this" "Gold doubloons and pieces of eight! Handed down from Applegate..." or words to that effect! (You can be thankful this is not on I-pod or I would be singing it!). The theme was the perennial one of searching for buried treasure. As National Geographic magazine reminds us from time to time, there are folks who give their lives to searching for buried treasure! Indeed, one wonders if the true value of it all is in the SEARCH rather than in the "treasure" itself. Where IS their heart in this matter? Jesus challenges us to take a look at what is "treasure" for us and asks us to consider whether or not we are searching for something worthwhile. Indeed, we may already have that treasure and the fact that we are searching means we haven't realized how fortunate we truly are, because we have our eyes fixed on the wrong treasure! In the past I've mentioned here an exercise I used on college student retreats where they were challenged to identify and write down "treasured" persons, things and activities and then discard them in the order of increasing importance! It produced tears in a lot of eyes. We learn where our "heart" truly is. I wonder how many of us would put our religious faith on that list? How many would put family and friends? What WOULD we put on those three lists? Are we searching for those items? Does the fact of a search mean we believe we do not "have" those realities in our lives? Where IS our treasure? Where IS our heart? AMEN
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