Isaiah 40:1-11 / Matthew 18:12-14 (2019)
Mark Twain said that the two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Between these two so-called most important days of our lives, we will be having our questions about life and its purpose.
And as we try to find out the meaning of life and its purpose, we will slowly come to understand why we have to learn the painful lessons of life.
It is to help to come to the realization that we won't live forever in this world.
As the 1st reading puts it: All flesh is like grass and its beauty like the wild flower's. The grass withers and the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on them.
But life is not just about finality and termination.
Because as much as the grass withers and the flower fades, the Word of the Lord remains forever.
And the Word was made flesh in Jesus. And Jesus tells us in today's gospel that it is never the will of our Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.
May we find out one day that in order for God to find us and save us, we have to be little and humble.
God first came to us as a little and humble baby. May we return to God as His little and humble children.