Gospel: Matthew 13: 53-57
Many people have had the experience of growing up in a place, then moving away to live and work somewhere else. After a while one has the desire to return to your hometown to visit or perhaps live again there. But we find it very different than what we remember, and the people there find you very different from what they remember of you.
Sometimes we cannot accept such a change, and others cannot accept it of us. Jesus has thus experience in today's Gospel. His town was fine knowing him as he was in their minds. They cannot understand or accept this new understanding of who Jesus is and has become.
The life of faith is a continual development of understanding who Jesus is in our lives. We might get comfortable with the way we knew Jesus from an earlier time in our life, but the life of faith demands an ever-deepening understanding of Jesus as the relationship develops over the course of a life. Our nostalgia for a past time is not authentic faith and understanding. What matters is the continual development and following of Jesus each day.
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