"From heaven God looks down; he sees all humankind" we pray in today's responsorial psalm. God looks down with compassion. he knows the weaknesses of human nature, our struggles, heartaches, tragedies. His own son was no spared the results of humankind's jealous rage that lead to his death. He knows the depth of sin and darkness into which any human being is exposed and into which pits of human misery a person can fall, either as a perpetrator or a victim.
God Himself became one of us to lead us out of darkness into the Light, to show us the depth of God's love, to reveal God's compassion and show us how to love tenderly, act justly and walk humbly with Him. Such is what today's Gospel, Luke 4: 38-44, is about. Jesus heals Peter's mother-in-law, stands over over, rebukes the fever and it leaves her. In the evening people pour into Peter's home. These people, coming on their own or brought there by caring persons, are suffering from all kinds of illnesses. some are possessed by demons. Jesus heals all of them. That is who God is--loving, compassionate, caring, ready to help those in need who take responsibility for themselves or allow others to help them get the help they need.
Today, who am I? Someone who needs to look for help to deal with an illness, an addiction? Or someone who has been given the opportunity to bring God's compassion to another person is who emotionally anguished, physically weak or tormented by "demons"?
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