In today's first reading, 1 Peter 4: 7-13, Peter admonishes us as follows: "[L]et your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaining." Each of us, he says, "has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace. Whoever preaches, let it be with the words of God; whoever serves, let it be with the strength that God supplies, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen."
Am I, are you, a good steward of the gifts God has given to us, that is, do we use our gifts for the good of another? Are we "hospitable...without complaining"? Note Peter's comment that however we serve others, however we make the world in which we live, be that our family or community living space, we do so "with the strength that God supplies"! Without God's strength, we would not be building up God's kingdom of love here on earth! Furthermore, Peter tells us, the purpose of what we do here on earth, as father/mother, parent/child, priest/religious women/men, is "that in all things God be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and dominion forever and ever."
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