Playing the Prophet

Prophets might be looked upon as kooks, fanatics, harbingers of doom, scary types.  Rightly did Jesus say they are not accepted in their own home towns.  Why, because they speak the TRUTH, and the truth is not always what people want to hear. In our first reading from the second Book of Kings, we read of Naaman, an army commander who had leprosy and was willing to go to the prophet Elisha for a cure, he was angry when the prophet told him simply to bathe in the river Jordan, expecting something more dramatic.  However, he submitted to Elisha's directive and was cured. Naaman did not want to hear the simple truth, but it worked. (see 2 Kgs. 5:1-15)  We usually react as he did, but only in learning and accepting that God, in simple and unexpected ways, touches and heals us. 
Do we realize that he calls us to be his witnesses, his prophets, in simple, everyday ways?  If we live the truth and speak it to others in word and action, we too are prophets, needed prophets. May we become more and more attuned to the Truth and pass it on without fear or hesitation.
Bro Rene