How God Works
Looking for God in the simplest of things
God is the God of here, there and everywhere.
I love how a reflection I was reading mentioned this. Looking into this Sunday’s Gospel reading, we get to see Jesus speaking to the people in parables. The beauty of it is how he uses very simple images to describe the kingdom of God.
Taking time to really ponder on the Gospel readings, one would realize how God yearns to be found in the simplest of things, and it’s quite possible! We often aim to look for God in the grandiosity of churches and cathedrals, in the awe-inspiring sacred art that seems to bring you one step closer to the divine, or in the magnificent yet inexplicable miracles that bring one to their knees. And they’re not wrong.
But maybe we also need to learn to see God in the simplicity of daily life, even in the most mundane of things.
From our rising to our sleeping, from our eating to our drinking.
From our daily walks to those moments of just being still.
From that simple “Hi”, to that “Thank you” and “Stay safe”.
Maybe we really just have to learn to realize and appreciate the fact that God is everywhere, even in our moments of pain, sadness, hurt, worry, anxiety, fear, loneliness, and isolation.
Maybe we really have to be reminded, even if it’s over and over, that God is here, there, and everywhere.
Maybe we need to embrace the fact that God can do so much even in the simplest of things, and we don’t really need to understand everything.
Maybe we just have to learn to appreciate the fact that whatever God does will always be beautiful and good, even if we don’t fully understand them.
Maybe we just need to take God and His work as it is, and that’s more than enough for us.
Which begs the question, “Why did Jesus ‘explain everything to his disciples in private?’”
It’s not that Jesus didn’t want the kingdom of God to be known to the people and throughout the world. It’s far from it. He wants the people to know of God, His kingdom, and His desire for man’s salvation. But there is a right time for everything to be fully revealed, to allow things to take its natural course for God’s plan to come to fruition, to be fulfilled.
Looking at Jesus’ action, you could even say that his action of teaching in parables but not really explaining everything to the people is already a parallelism to his first parable. It’s been scattered, but it grows. The people may not know how it happened, but they know that it’s beautiful. Once it grows, it will then give room for others to experience and relish it through them.
And that’s another thing we take away from the Gospel. We simply have to give room for God’s love to grow in us so we can also be a means to plant that same seed in other people’s hearts, and let the kingdom of God grow and spread on earth.
Ave Maria!
