They have soon turned aside from the way i pointed out to them

March 30, 2017 6:00 am

“They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it, sacrificing to it and crying out,’This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt!’” (EX 32: 8) 

Our God, educators and parents have the same problem: “they have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out of them.” Instead of changing ourselves and our strategies or paradigms, we try to change others: “making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it…”; this is our new God. The same thing happens after our Programs. At the beginning we are so happy with the homework; we practice the new strategies until—he/she makes me upset or angry, and we see no more reasons to change ourselves and prefer to change him/her. What to do? Start again with gentleness. 

“God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might have eternal life.” (Gospel Acclamation) 

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