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| Waiting awaits graces... |
Today's reflection is very rich about our Sunday's Gospel (Lk.12:32-48) on the cost of waiting and doing our responsibility. Waiting for a certain person especially on long hours makes us very impatient and sometimes we would never mind to go ahead. Waiting makes us irritated and disappointed on a person we expect to come on an agreed time but he never did. Have you experienced all sorts of irritation and disappointment while waiting so long? Perhaps you might need to add more patience for this for which the servants in our today's gospel did well on waiting. The servants of the master did this with faithfulness and with prudence that their master will come although they do not know what time but still they wait and guard. They did not give up waiting for they know that their master will come even though waiting for more hours or so and they kept on guard too.
The experience of waiting is truly excruciating and much more, instead of waiting, it is wasting some precious hours instead doing more productive work. The servants could went to bed that time but they kept vigil. They did not abandon what was their responsibility for their master and that to serve him whenever he comes though in an uncertain time. Are we also capable of doing this? Perhaps we might, but nevertheless if it is a call of
responsibility and our duty to wait, why not?
We take a look and observe what the bodyguard of a very important person is doing...waiting and guarding because that's the call of his duty is and the bodyguard is responsible to the safety of the person. Even our security guards in our company, school and other establishments are doing this too. When we wait, we don't see the real value of it but we mumble and complain, but waiting puts our patience to test and makes more valuable to us to gain wisdom. In patience we gain wisdom to be more responsible and vigilant to our work and thus it follows that patience gains everything.
Our responsibility to wait is not something punishable likeof standing and sitting for a long time but there is wisdom behind this. And this wisdom makes us more wiser, faithful and prudent. We cannot reap the fruits that are not yet ripe on time unless it ripens on a particular day of harvest. To wait is also a responsibility to do what is necessary, pruning and gardening, keep guard and be vigilant, so on the day of harvest to come, we harvest blessings abundantly. We can learn from waiting, and from waiting we become more responsible person, a person with patience gains wisdom and a person becomes prudent knowing the right time that makes more blessings to harvest graces from God our master, so rich and abundant!
