Levels of life / Mk 12.41-44 / 08.11.2015

We are good as we share !!!
On the Sunday-Collection (and by Church-tax) we give to the Church to favor Church-life.
On many occasions we give to the State - to favor social life, public education etc...
But first, we are obliged to calculate which amount we need for ourself, for the family etc...
Sometimes we feel bad - there is nothing over - we cannot spend, as we like...
sometimes something is over - we are glad to share or forced to give...
This earthly-level: How to manage our assets is very important. More important: How we manage our time (used for what???) how to manage our skills (engaged in what???).

Mk today tells us a behavior of Jesus Catholic Priests cannot follow: we have not to watch 
at the collection how much people put in the money-box. But Catholic Priests have
to open our minds again and again for the life-level Jesus is calling us for.

Jesus likes today to open our mind for an other level of life. Not the distribution-level (known
also as the calculation-level) not the very good sharing-level - but the dedication-level, the comprehensive level (know  also as the Heaven-level).

Question: The whole life, all 24 hours, all assets, all skills are dedicated to ???
All what we have, all what we need is dedicated to... ??? Do we have one great comprehensive dedication -  dedicated to ???

For some people "dedication" is strange. They see life as a survival-struggle. But 
in reality these people are often very well totally dedicated to life. That's good !!!
Now Jesus opens the eye for the insight: Dedication to Heaven is condition for a right dedication to Earth. Strive for a new Heaven and you will get a new Earth.

We know people they have in public shown us how they have dedicated their total life to
God. That's very good. And often we have seen, how such God-dedicated life has enabled them to a strange and most effective life on Earth (look at the Saints).
Heaven + Earth are not in contradiction but in strong inter-dependence.

Maybe - some people speak of "consecrated life" and have in mind "Heaven dedicated life"
in order to create a new Earth - why not ???
The Sunday-Mass maybe a sign of your dedication and the collection a sign of your sharing.