In today's Gospel, Jesus praises and holds up as an example for us, a poor widow who quietly and unassumingly places two small coins in to the temple treasury. What makes her give special is that it was all that she had to live on. (cf. Mk 12: 44). She was "bankrupt", and yet trusted enough in God's generosity to match her own; God would somehow take care of her. She realized that it is God's generous and unbounded love that counts, not the pennies in her pocket. Quite the reversal of so many of us today, when "money talks" and becomes our prime motivation. It's time for us to realize and accept our own bankruptcy, for such is the case if money and things have become so important to us that we think they will make us happy, or give us power over others. If we learned to live from our poverty, we would enjoy the freedom and the happiness of admitting our dependence on God and relieve ourselves of the stress that ties us down and clouds our lives with restlessness and gloom.
Bro. Rene
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