LEAVE HER ALONE!

"Leave her alone!"

Has it ever happened to you that you were trying, really trying I mean to do something good for someone and they threw it back in your face? Or maybe someone else came along and made some snide comment? I just hate that. I mean, here you are trying to do everything right, and someone just totally slams you, and you're like, "Are you kidding me? I'm doing this for you. I'm doing this for someone I love, ok? Back off."

Hey, Jesus feels the same way. That's called righteous indignation. But now let me tell you two really great things. First, Jesus will reward you. That's right, isn't it? You better believe it. And the second is this, Who cares what other people think?! Mary didn't care. She just did it. And let me tell you something else: B16 doesn't care if the media is going to jump his case every time he tries to do something good. He's going to move ahead anyway. How does he do it? It's not just Jesus giving him some great mystical experience all the time. He's got something else going for him.

B16 knows how to love yourself. He knows how to give yourself credit when he does something good, and he's not going to back down. Not after Regensburg. Not after the Lefebvre bishop who denied the holocaust. Not for the comment about contraception doing nothing to stop AIDS in Africa. Not for this letter to the Irish Church. Why? Because he knows he's right, and because he gives himself the credit he deserves. You give yourself the credit you deserve, don't you? Hmm, could that be why you don't always do the right thing? Because I'll tell you something, you can do the right thing, and somebody comes and talks bad about you for it, AND Jesus can leave you feeling high and dry spiritually (for the moment). It happens. What are you going to do? Settle for moral mediocrity? Rebel against God? Give up? Go eat something? Complain? (Complaining was my favorite back in the day, but food was a close second!)

What a waste of time and energy. Why not ring your own bell? Why not reward yourself for doing the right thing because it was the right thing? If you did that, how much freer would you become? How much more often would you do the right thing without hesitation, totally in the flow? What could that do to your life? Think about it. Seriously...

So when you do something good today, ring your own bell. Don't wait for others to do it, ok? Don't expect some cool mystical experience either, right? This is called ascetics. Making it easier for you to do the good. This is preparing for that new life called THE RESURRECTION.

God bless,
Live from your heart,

Scott

PS. Today our founder Fr. Salvatore Scorza celebrates 58 years of Priesthood. What a model of servant leadership...