Dealing with our Choices

Isaiah, the Psalmist and Matthew in the Scripture from today’s Roman Catholic Lectionary offer words that resonate with teachers at this end of semester time. Teachers reflect that the students would be in better places had they made better choices during the semester. The gift of seeing the choices from the point of view of the one who chooses is the path to understanding and compassion. It is the view of the Divine toward our choices. We see ourselves in the persons who Isaiah sees have missed the gracious gift of God, who have chosen to sit with scorners and who seem to be the hard to understand people of ‘this generation’. The real story in all of these examples is Redemption and restoration of the relationship which hopefully follows in teaching and learning and is guaranteed to follow in our relationship with the Divine.