Excellent Expectations

The Book of Wisdom from the Roman Catholic Lectionary for today reveals the understanding that the expected path of people is to be aware of their relationship to the Divine and to find in that relationship the love which invokes trust and reveals truth. The expectation of those who know their place in God is that the grace and mercy of God will live with them for eternity. The psalmist echoes the experienced truth that the Lord is near to the broken hearted and saves the crushed in spirit. From the position of slave as Luke outlines in the Gospel today, we acquire a proper humble perspective that the best we can do, in our relationship with the Divine, only what is expected of creature when aware of Creator.