In 2008, Susan Boyle, a devout Catholic in a cluster of villages in UK, stunned the audience with her vocal performance at the Britain Got Talent Show. She performed “I Dream of a Dream”.
In 2011, a young Korean man had a similar fate. Orphaned at 3, he raised himself after being physically beaten up by gangs in the streets of Korea. He joined “Korea’s Got Talent” and astounded the audience with his performance.
Both Susan Boyle and this young Korean guy came from humble beginnings just as our Lord was born from poverty. Yet, we know now that Jesus, a baby in the stable, is God the Son. Not many Jews were able to recognize Him because He was sent to this world in humble beginnings.
There are many around us who seem “little” and almost with no worth to us. We do not enjoy looking at them – the homeless, the beggars and those people lining up for food in the food pantry. They look repulsive. Our society has convinced us of certain standards in beauty.
However, time and time again, God reminds us that our aspirations to be always beautiful or to make everything around us palatable and livable, become meaningless to Him. Because God does not measure His love for us through our “successes” in life.
God loves us in His own unique ways. Our annoying neighbors who keep not minding their own businesses, those criminals in prison who are serving their sentence, the unemployed men and women who fall in despair looking for a job, or our family members who are struggling with sins – God loves them all so much. In time, those people we look down because they are not as Catholic as we are, God will pluck them out and make them “huge”. One day, their Catholic Faith will leapfrog and they will be ahead of us.
Have you seen the elderly in your midst lately? They struggle to walk and they are constantly complaining of pain. Yet, Jesus can work through them. Jesus gives us an opportunity to serve them. Jesus said “Whatever you do, to the least of my brethren, you do unto Me.“
What have you done to the Susan Boyle’s around you – those middle-aged women that looked funny with their unfashionable style of dressing and makeup? Did you help them get out of their loneliness? What about those youth that have an absence of guiding parents to nurture them? Did you just pass them up, hoping someone like a youth counselor will help them?
What did you do with those babies who are being killed on a daily basis because our nation cannot be united on what it considers a “human life”? Those are the least and that is what we do to our Lord.
So hard to change our society, when the enemy works 24/7 to make sure we accept the lie that He puts in the minds of many Americans. American Pro-Choice supporters sing the same mantra over and over again: those babies fringe on the freedom of American women and these women have rights.
We will all come to realize that we live in a brutal world if people will be enlightened on the atrocities of “abortion”. Just as how society was brutal to Susan Boyle and this Korean guy, we continually ignore the “rejects” in our midst because we live in a “comfortable convenient world”. We operate on a daily, busy work regimen that we put off helping out people and consider this as a “once in a year” event and not a daily one. We pray for them but we do not really do anything for them. There is just no time. Perhaps, next week? or the next?
Really, when will you ever act on this call to “serve God”?
God calls us everyday, yet the world has made us deaf. Thus, the only way to hear Him and His calling is to declutter our time schedule. We must slow down on the material calling of society and run towards the Catholic Church, who remains to be filled with the “set-up” to serve the least.
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