People never change, if we are to believe the ever authoritative memes in circulation. Thank Heaven, literally, that Jesus didn't have Pinterest and wasn't aware of this "truth" when He descended into Matthew's dark corner of thievery and corruption and plucked him right up and out of it. Matthew never forgot who he had been nor how he was never to be that again.
The grace of God was greater than the gravitational pull of human nature.
Our rabbit trail this morning took us to these places:
Story of St Matthew for kids here and here
Khan Academy video about the symbolism in Caravaggio's Call of St Matthew here (if you are my son and you miss the backroom bar analogy or where "the point" comes from then you might have to re-watch. ; ))
May we have the grace to say the same unequivocal, "Yes!" to God and the call to higher things.
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