Too much
Everyone has their breaking point, right?
That point at which they have absolutely had it. When they finally had to end the relationship or quit the job. Because they can’t take it anymore and they are done.
We’ve all been there.
We’ve all been the one to make the break. You and I have gotten to that point. Where we had to leave for our own mental wellbeing, our physical health, or both.
But that’s not the only reason why you and I know about that breaking point, is it?
We hate to admit it, but there are times when you and I have been on the other side of that breaking point.
Where we have been the one that someone had to make the break with.
Because we kept screwing things up. Or we were stuck in unhealthy patterns. Or we couldn’t get over ourselves. Or we didn’t make time for them. Or any of a million other ways it becomes too much.
Because everyone has their breaking point.
We’re so used to finding that breaking point with other people – and even with ourselves – that we just assume God works the same way.
And that we’re going to screw things up. Or fall back into our unhealthy patterns. Or get full of ourselves. Or make time for everything but God. Or whatever it is.
One time too many. And we’re going to find out that God has a breaking point too.
Which is exactly what we don’t see in today’s Gospel – with the woman caught in adultery.
Jesus doesn’t give her one last chance. Or tell her that it’s too late.
Instead, Jesus forgives her.
And lets her know that her life doesn’t have to be this way.
That even if she doesn’t see it, she is more than her flaws, her faults, her failings.
“Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”
Tradition says that St. Cyril of Jerusalem (today’s saint) had a vision of Jesus meeting her again after the Resurrection. After she had fallen back into her old ways.
When they met, she was so ashamed that she couldn’t even meet His eyes. Jesus gently lifted up her head and softly said to her again,
“Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”
Today’s Readings
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Why would you ever want to be more than this? Why would you want life to be more complicated than this?
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