Friday 12th November, 2010 Lot's Wife.

Today's Mass Scripture Readings can be found here

The Gospel relates the well known story of Lot's wife leaving the doomed city of Sodom and Gomorrah, being warned not to look back and being turned into a pillar of salt because of course , she did look back !!

Joke for the day...........

Johhny was listening to the parable of Lot's wife and after a moment of thought he said:

"My Mum was driving the car and she looked back too and she turned into a lampost !"

 

Here we are bang in the middle of the month of November , the month of Remembrance, the month of All Souls and All Saints , all steering our focus into the past and now we have this shift......... Don't Look Back ! 


So what is the message ?  .... Just thinking...... 

There is a time and a place for remembering but if  we are stuck in the past the smooth running salt of life won't be able to move us forward and so we end up as a solid rock of salt.

We are told not to look back, not to spend time rubbing salt into the wounds of regrets.... the what if.... if only's .... and all the things that are lost in the past , regrets, mistakes, wrongdoings.


For we can all make ourselves into dried up stinging pillars of encrusted salt .


Move forward is the message !


 On a wider scale of thought...
 the world is full of disasters and mass death and maybe if we dwell on these to the point where we become fixated and unable to move beyond that fear of ever present disaster it will ultimately petrify and suck any life and hope out of us.

In the pouring out of our lives we have to follow the way of the cross.

It isn't easy to leave the past behind.

But there is the "kindly light of Christ to lead us on."