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If you have no interest in bearing good fruit you will lose what you have.

In the Gospel Jesus reminds us of the fact that we make choices all the time.
Some of us hear the word of God but we pay no attention to what we have heard
and so the opportunity of contact with God is lost.
Some of us hear the word and recognise its importance but do nothing about it
because there are so many other things that have our attention as well.
Some of us love to hear the word of God
but our priorities are set already so that what we hear is always a dream too far away.

Jesus adds that if we have no interest, no time, no energy for his message
than we will lose what we have already and our ears will become dull of hearing the message
and our eyes will shut when seeing the obvious
and our heart will become coarse and disinterested in the things of God.

However, there are those of us who hear the word of God,
recognise its importance,
ponder it in our heart,
try to act on it,
develop it and eventually bear fruit.
The more we do it the more fruit we yield.

In the first reading, through the prophet Isaiah,
God states that what he wants done on earth will be done
but what he leaves us to do may or may not be done.
Eventually everything will be done as God has planned it,
but the slower we are on the uptake the longer it will take.

St Paul says in the second reading that it pays to make an effort,
to push and help a better world be born.
No good effort is lost, every little bit helps.
The more we accept our communal responsibility;
that we are citizens of the world and that we should help the world
the freer we become.

St Benedict was once visited by his sister St Scolastica and they set and talk about the things of God.
When evening came and St Benedict rose to return to the monastery, his sister asked him to stay and continue their conversation.
St. Benedict said no, his place was in the monastery.
St Scolastica then prayed for God’s help and soon a torrential rain prevented St Benedict from leaving the place and they sat and continued talking about the things of God.
Let us bear in mind, that by what we think about and what we talk about we create ourselves.

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