Enough

(a homily)

God is enough. God's call is plenty. Faithfully following God, heeding the Word is hard.

Though all grace has been offered, though our lives have been given us by God, inevitably life will at times be unbearable. There may be clear reasons why something is wrong; at other times it will be a mystery. Nonetheless, this gift of life will on occasion, even for long seasons feel as a curse. Like Hannah the Ephriamite, we will loose our appetite, our will to bear the stress that others, circumstance, and the plain evil in the world places on us.

In these times we must remember God is enough. God's call is plenty. God says to us, "Am I not more to you than anything you could ever determine to be that which makes you worthy?" And does not Christ call us to the shore, bidding us to leave our perceived task, our comfortable homes, our burdensome professions and follow? This, even in our weakness, our despair, ought to replenish our appetites if they have been diminished. And if our lives are fine today let us be thankful, and out of the abundance God has blessed us with offer ourselves in service to our downtrodden brothers and sisters.

We can never fully return to God the good things we have received. But we can follow God's command to take up the cup of salvation to our lips. Let us be filled today with God's comfort, God's blessing, God's most Holy Spirit.

(1 Samuel 1:1-8, Psalm 116, Mark 1:14-20)