Miss the last ?

Monday, September 26, 2022

Miss the last ?

So then, while we have the opportunity, let us do good to all, and especially to the brethren in the faith. Galatians 6.10

No doubt you have noticed that the flower sellers are already struggling in a special way from the end of September. It is that the tombs must be flowered for All Saints. Because it's been moons that we confuse, practically, the feast of the saints and that of the dead !

I recently received a very pretty flowering plant for my birthday. With the frequent remark : “Better to offer flowers to the living than to the dead. They, at least, benefit from it." A lot of people say it... rightly so, but I don't know if everyone does it !

This made me think of the verse from Galatians. There are a few words here that are really worth pondering : while you have the opportunity... We know that some occasions are unique and that all of them one day become "the last". How many regrets, sometimes, if we have not grasped it. We know it well. However, we let it pass, saying to ourselves : “next time”. But it happens that, next time, there is no more, either that the recipient has left, or that it is us.

Let us take the trouble to meditate on Paul's advice : Let us do good...especially towards the brothers in the faith, while we [still] have the opportunity. Without forgetting to start by putting ourselves in good standing with God before our turn comes to present ourselves before him.

Richard Douliere

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Proposed reading : Letter to the Galatians, chapter 6, verses 7 to 10.

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