As I was contemplating the end of this decade and the state of the world, I read the words from Matthew when Jesus responded to John who protested that he should not baptize Jesus, but it should be the other way around: “...it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”
When I listen to the news, I don’t hear much righteousness going on and wonder how God’s righteousness is to be fulfilled. By now you’re probably thinking to yourself, “Boy, is she a slow learner or what?” Yes, it hit me that we, beginning with me, are going to make this fulfillment come about. Then I get overwhelmed by thinking about what a tall order this is. I just need to remember Matthew Kelly’s advise to take one “holy moment” at a time and keep rolling those moments into more moments and more moment until we have a huge snowman of holy moments. I was very impressed by Kelly’s remark, “Our desire to see the world change is a desire to see the holy moments outweigh the unholy.” That is something I think I can wrap my head and arms around.
Of course that means I need to get busy making more holy moments. I know I could be more patient at the grocery checkout line. I mean, really! Why am I in such a hurry to rush home just to carry all the bags in and put the groceries away when I might have a nice conversation with someone else in line or the cashier? I don’t need to bore you with my list of where I can roll my holy moments because you probably already have your own thoughts and plans. And because you do, we can all have high hopes for a better world this year. We’ll put our hopes and faith in a resurrection from the unholy as we build our holy snowmen with Jesus. Such hopes remind me of Sinatra’s song about the ant and the rubber tree plant.
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