The Monthly Note
September 2011
The Lord's «Comeback»
«The moment is here for you to stop sleeping and wake up» (Romans 13,11)
by Marcel Dumont, O.P.
It’s already September, how time flies. Like every year, it seems that that summer has just begun. At the end of summer break, a new season is upon us and calls us to a new change, a new challenger a new growth. In the rhythm of life and nature, nothing is static, everything is in continuous movement, «Life» never ceases to make us grow. Such is Creation, such is God’s desire when He instilled life, His life, in our world.
This world, He wanted living, full of vitality that always leads us further, always further with Him; with Him, nothing is static. When Fall shows up at the end of vacation time and of cooler mornings, it’s our Lord that comes to tell us that the movement of life leads to greatness to greatness, from growth to growth. He wanted it that way, because with Him, nothing can be wasted-not even our sin-nothing is without reason, without a life’s reason, life with a capital «L».
Maybe some of us went through a more difficult summer time than other. Maybe for some, summer vacation was a time when then weight of daily life was harder to bear, by lack of means to enjoy the pleasures of summer with the family. Anyway, the season, fall that knocks at our door is full of «Him»! And only Him, Jesus, from all times, seasons or movements of life, knows to join in, by His presence, the human and spiritual season, that is ours at the present: the movement of life that is ours in this month of September 2011.
Happy or worried by this «comeback», by this new fall beginning, Jesus, for His part, suggests to lead us, with our life experience of glory or pain, towards the life’s season, the «comeback» that is His. With Our Lord, no need for money, no need to leave the city, He is here, and He invites us to bite into Life. Oh! How time flies, how time flies with you Lord. It seems that summer, the season of comeback, of your grace, is only beginning.
