Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor.
By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor
“Looking Ahead” is a reflection on the Sunday readings, the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Perry.
Ask a person with high blood pressure who has recently been told by their doctor: “remove the salt from your diet.”
Some simply use a substitute. Some say they don’t miss it. Some say: “Without it, my food has no taste.”
Jesus said: “You are the salt of the earth.”
A woman, as a result of a serious accident, was blind for four months.
After her final surgery and accompanying recuperation, the bandages were removed and she was able to see. She was later quoted as saying: “It’s the light — the light; the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!”
Jesus said: “You are the light of the world.”
Isaiah calls it the “light.”
He could equally refer to it as “salt.”
In this respect, his writings could almost be called another “Gospel,” for he certainly speaks the heart of Jesus’ message — at least as it refers to love and care for the vulnerable and poor.
Speaking for God, Isaiah calls us to: “Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back on your own.”
“Then,” he says, “your light shall break forth like the dawn.”
Becoming light and salt is a dual thing. We do it because it seasons and brightens the lives of others. But we also do it because in the becoming of light and salt, our own lives are changed.
We discover the power and grace of God in our own lives and actions
Albert Cchweitzer.
