19 Sun C / incredible...

notice: on the 18th Sunday C (04.08.13) I was in Otshikuku to participate
with the AGA of the APC's.

Lk  gives us a sentence of Jesus (Lk 12.32), the most people are not able to believe; it's too much for every understanding:
IT HAS PLEASED GOD TO GIVE YOU THE KINGDOM.
It has been a pleasure for God to give to all humans the fullness of Life.
It's not only an offer, it's a fact (already happend).
If you take this message for real, you will stop to ask again and again:
please give us (like children not knowing how much they already got).

This basic teaching of the CHURCH is not accepted by many; esp. in the Liturgy
and in the Spirituality. Too many people feel before God as beggars: please give me / give us...   and because they can not believe to be well gifted, they are not
able the understand the importance of the following consequences:

1. now as a well gifted person, be dressed for action...
2. now as a well gifted person, keep your lamp lit...
3. now as a well gifted person, be ready to enter the door...
4. now as a well gifted person be awake (waiting for the Master)...

In reality it means we must give hands to each other and do our part
1. to wait for the day, for the sun, for the chance...
2. to receive what is given.... to learn to receive, to enlarge the capacity to receive, to avoid the feeling: now it's enough...
3. to become active; to shape the day and the world; to distribute all the
received gifts and to share ...  and one day: to give thanks!

The whole Gospel of today is a wake-up call...  and now as we go into the spring-time: we may discover how the plants bring the blossom - and this, oh wonder - without rain. There is a lot of resources all around - given to all - but we must become acvtive, to shape the Community.