"Home is where, if you have to go, they have to take
you in."
All joking aside, there are some, like the steward in the
Gospel, have no where to go.He was soon to be out on his ear for having
squandered his master's money but used his position fraudulently one last time
to give hope that he might have refuge after losing his position.
‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking the position
of steward away from me? I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg.
I know what I shall do so that, when I am removed from the stewardship, they
may welcome me into their homes.’
He learned the hard way that love money cannot buy happiness
because after all was said and done he had no friends as well, it seems, as no
family either.
Family is the first place where we learn the value of the
person, that persons are more important than things. Have you seen siblings put
inanimate toys aside as of no interest in order to play with each other for
long hours? People are fascinated with other people when life is in balance.
Sin and love of money takes the balance out of life and
causes unhappiness. It can cause unhappiness forever of one is not converted by
love of Jesus Christ to reject money and the material things of this world as
idols which enslave. Jesus Christ alone brings the freedom to love our dignity
enough to reject the alternatives which enslave as had done
the dishonest steward.
"The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is
also trustworthy in great ones." The small things with which the Lord
entrusts us now are the keeping on the Commandments, the task of learning that
we cannot hope to return His love without Jesus Christ.
I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest
wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal
dwellings."
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