Last week at Mass I
asked each of you a question: Does your faith bring you into contact with God?
Does your faith make a difference in your life, in how you experience the world
around you, and within you? Do you have an ongoing sense of God’s Presence in
you, or do you feel alone, apart from God?
Now I ask you one
little question. Let’s see who can guess the answer. Why did Naaman the Syrian want dirt? Naaman says to the prophet Elisha, “Please let me, your servant,
have two mule-loads of earth, for I will no longer sacrifice to any other god
except to the LORD.” What is the connection between dirt or earth and
worshipping the LORD?
Let’s see who figures this
out.
