2 Samuel 6:12-15, 17-19 / Mark 3:31-35
There is this possible presumption to think what is human goodness is the ordinary expectation.
So it is expected that ordinarily, people are kind, gentle, compassionate, understanding, patient and all those virtues.
With that it can also be said that it is out of the ordinary to be wicked, to be cruel, to be brutal, to be aggressive and all those inhumane acts.
But the reality is that those inhumane acts seem to be just as ordinary as those virtuous acts.
So, to be a good human being is not as ordinary as it seems.
And wickedness and evil seem to be so rampant that it has become like the ordinary expectation, and are even getting attention as well as a following.
So it is quite difficult to being just a good human being.
And it is also more difficult to be a good Christian.
We need not do what David did in the 1st reading, dancing with all his might before the Lord.
We just need to do what Jesus taught in the gospel, and that is to do the will of God.
May doing the will of God be our ordinary way of life, and in doing so we are united with Jesus as His brothers and sisters.