Gospel: Mark 6: 1-6
Anyone who has attended a high school reunion has experienced something similar to people's reaction to Jesus in today's Gospel. We encounter someone we knew on a daily basis while growing up, and we are surprised to find them as a world-renowned doctor or some other phenom. When we knew them they were just the second baseman on our little league team, the unassuming classmate, the girl down the street.
If we are gracious people, we rejoice in their success and take the surprise as a pleasant one, but more often than not jealousy overcomes people and they mock this person's success, as occurs here in the Gospel to Jesus. They cannot possibly see how this ordinary person came to such renown and they did not. They fail to accept the fact that God can do great things in anyone, that God is present in every person, and thus every person is full of potential to do great things.
And so people disbelieved in Jesus' miracles, and we fail to see them present in our own day in these ordinary marvels of human accomplishment. If we find ourselves jealous in these situations, it is perhaps because we ourselves have not achieved our full potential, that we have squandered our talent and not allowed God to work in us all that we could have accomplished. Let us not be the people of Nazareth but instead a people who see God present in every life.
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