Be like Paul

Give me a break!

I pick up the paper and the headline reads:
Meals for seniors caught in latest state budget feud

Don’t tell me we are in a fiscal crisis when yachts line the Connecticut shore!

Let me tell you a story……

In achieve Rome lived a man names Saul.
He became famous for his persecution of the early Christians.
Then he had his “Come to Jesus moment.”
From that time on he was known as Paul, one of the great apostles of the Church.

In his letter to the Corinthians (II Corinthians 8:13-15), he said,
13 Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. 14 At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, 15 as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

Sisters and brothers,
We live in the richest state in the richest country that has ever existed on this earth.
There is no shortage of treasure.

There is no fiscal crisis.
But there is a moral crisis.

We are Saul.
We need to be Paul.