Accessibility for All

Gospel: Luke 10: 17-24

When Jesus tells us to rejoice at seeing what we see for kings and others longed to see them, he is not referencing some inability to access Jesus because of temporal and spatial inaccessibility.  That is something that happens by chance and is not something over which we have control.  The access Jesus references is one that is available to all people in all times and places.  Kings and the powerful could not see it for they only seek spectacles like Herod or they only want their biases and beliefs confirmed like so many of us.

But what Jesus speaks of is a radical openness to God at all times of our lives, the ability to find God present in all things and in all people's lives.  It is to live in acceptance of God's mercy for oneself and to offer that mercy to others we encounter in the world.  For when mercy is offered possibilities are opened; when mercy is not offered, no possibilities are found - there is only alienation from God and others.  

So, today we are invited by the Lord Jesus to this openness to God's mercy and to extend that mercy to others, to open possibilities for ourselves and others through this mercy.  Life is not a battle where only two possibilities exist; it is a relationship with God, a relationship with others where endless possibilities exist for flourishing through mercy and love.