Risk Taking

The  Parable of the Talents (Mt 25: 14-30) challenges us to use our gifts and talents in a way that they multiply and bring greater profit to their owner.  In the parable, each person acknowledged that these talents really belong to the Master, yet each, except the third, took risks in somehow doubling them. The third was afraid to take a risk, simply burying his and awaiting the Master's return. This does not win him praise, but rather a place in the "darkness outside...wailing and grinding of teeth." (Lk 25:30), not a happy place!  Where would we be, where would Christianity be, if this very cautious approach were taken to it?  It would have dried up centuries ago.  No, the point is, it's got to grow, we've go to make it grow.  Pope Francis reminds us:"He (God) knows us personally and entrusts us with what is right for us;....Let us not disappoint him! Let us not be misled by fear, but let us reciprocate trust with trust!"  Let's be risk-takers!
Bro. Rene