THE GIFT

Recently our son and his family went to Alaska for ten days. After they returned home, they came to our house to bring grandma and grandpa a gift. The little girls were so excited to give me a pair of socks with moose on them and moose tracks on the bottom of them. They stuck the socks in my face and said, “Grandpa, look what we brought you!” This made me think of all of us. Are we as excited as they were to come to church to meet our Lord and to give him our gifts of love, happiness, joy or even our sadness, our troubles, and our cares at the time of offertory? We may not have journeyed to a different state, but we make the journey every week to our local parish where we climb the mountain and see where heaven and earth come together at communion time. Are we excited to look inside ourselves, to see where God takes us through the scripture readings, the homily, and the Mass? We might not think of Mass as a journey, and we might not be excited to give the Lord our gifts, but we should be. The Lord wants you to give him all these gifts and much more. If you love someone you care deeply and that is how the Lord Jesus cares about you. Do you give the Lord all of your gifts? Do you see coming to Mass as a journey?