Sunday, September 27, 2020

26th Week, Ordinary Time, Monday, 28-09-2020

Job 1:6-22 / Luke 9:46-50

The term "bucket list" generally means that it is the things that a person wishes to do during his lifetime, or at least before he passes on.

It can be anything from visiting a place or places, or achieving something or possessing something.

Whether all the items in that "bucket list" can be fulfilled is another matter; it may just be a "wish list" and it may not be that critical.

But it is not usual to come up with a "casket list". A so-called "casket list" is a list of items that one wishes to put into the coffin for his burial.

It is not usual in modern time to have a "casket list" but for the pharaohs and emperors in ancient times, there can be a number of items that will go into their tombs, e.g. treasures, possessions and even living human beings.

But we know that it would be pointless to have a "casket list" because we know we can't bring anything to the after-life.

As Job would say it in the 1st reading: Naked I came from my mother's womb, naked I shall return.

Yes, the casket and the grave strip us of all our earthly possessions and achievements and even our greatness in the eyes of world.

Whatever "bucket list" or "casket list" would be useless.

The only thing that we can ever bring into our casket and to the grave is God's saving love for us.

In life and in death, it is not about how great we are or have been. It is how great God's love is for us that He saves us and gives us eternal life with Him.