On the Gospel, the three items tie together because they require a total risk assessment for total surrender to the Divine Will and the Ultimate Reward. For the tower and in construction, you have to know your cost, else it would lead to your financial ruin. Having a “bid bust” can destroy some companies. If a developer is wise and looks at everything before building and executes properly, he will have an income source potentially for the rest of his life. His reward is great because he understood the risk and commitment needed.
I appreciated the comment that this is the gospel incarnate: a person stepping into the gap to reconcile two broken parties, to get them to see reality for what it is. Our culture feeds us the lie that we should cut people off, but God’s plan is always reconciliation.
Who has been building something for years and years? We know that one. But wait: Who says he *will* build something? Who is laughed at (some time later) by onlookers for apparently being unable to accomplish what they think he set out to do? (Come down, etc.) What did it cost him to lay the foundation and to build on it what even today is not yet complete? Not less than everything I guess. But he sat down to calculate the cost before sitting even existed.
On the Gospel, the three items tie together because they require a total risk assessment for total surrender to the Divine Will and the Ultimate Reward. For the tower and in construction, you have to know your cost, else it would lead to your financial ruin. Having a “bid bust” can destroy some companies. If a developer is wise and looks at everything before building and executes properly, he will have an income source potentially for the rest of his life. His reward is great because he understood the risk and commitment needed.
Thanks! Homily on Philemon in our parish this weekend for sure!
JD you're not alone, I too was thinking of a Filene's Basement pun
I appreciated the comment that this is the gospel incarnate: a person stepping into the gap to reconcile two broken parties, to get them to see reality for what it is. Our culture feeds us the lie that we should cut people off, but God’s plan is always reconciliation.
Listening to this (late as always) on the feast of St Peter Claver. Amazing.
In the two mini parables where is Jesus?
Who has been building something for years and years? We know that one. But wait: Who says he *will* build something? Who is laughed at (some time later) by onlookers for apparently being unable to accomplish what they think he set out to do? (Come down, etc.) What did it cost him to lay the foundation and to build on it what even today is not yet complete? Not less than everything I guess. But he sat down to calculate the cost before sitting even existed.