SKIMMING GRACE ~ F ... 'The Archbishop's Eulogy'
Soul Snack 101/14 ... On March 24th 1980 while celebrating his Catholic mass (with hands extended as if to welcome heaven) Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was himself welcomed to heaven through an assassin's bullet.
Below is a poignant and prophetic quote lifted from his final sermon that fatal morning:
'The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts; it is beyond our vision. We accomplish in our life-time only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders, not ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own'.
These thoughts burden my soul. They remove the priority of petty desires, resentments, un-forgiveness, betrayals, ambitions, passions and personal rights.
Romero places living into a liberating, righteous and humble orbit that resoundly tackles any self-importance resting upon our efforts, or stored within our souls.
2000 years prior to Romero's murder, John the Baptist (who too would be assassinated) spoke with a similar self-effacing grandeur of another also yet to be assassinated -
He (Jesus) must increase and I must decrease (John 3:30)
Through grace I write a eulogy to my own self-importance.
Today's Soul Snippet:
"A man is immortal until his work on earth is done." ~ Bishop J.C. Ryle
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