When is enough enough? The idiom has, I think, a kind of negative feel to it.
When one has “had enough,” they really don’t want or even can’t tolerate any more.
Enough!
But in today’s word, “enough” suggests complete satisfaction, total enjoyment, fully blessed, radically appreciated, and content.
The people were in the presence of and were hearing the law — the precepts of the Lord — and their reaction was awe in the presence of the Lord.
They were commanded not to weep but to rejoice, eat and drink, and celebrate.
+ The psalm announces and celebrates the enough-ness and contentment that comes from the law — the precepts of the Lord.
“The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart; refresh the soul; are trustworthy; give wisdom; are right and enlightening and pure and just and more precious than gold and sweeter than honey or syrup.”
Enough! And if the people of the towns could not appreciate that what they were receiving was certainly enough and exactly what they needed, then the disciples should “shake the dust from their feet and leave.”
Enough!
+ And St. Jerome certainly knew it was enough spiritually, which is why he sought out all of the education he could.
But in a sense the education was never enough; his being fed made him all the more hungry.
But truly, deep down, where it really counts, he knew it was spiritually enough — just right. And he was satisfied!
Father Perry D. Leiker is the 13th pastor of St. Bernard Catholic Church. Reach him at (323) 255-6142. Email Father Perry at pleiker@stbernard-church.com. Follow Father Perry on Twitter: @MrDeano76.
