Romans 13:8-10 / Luke 14:25-33
A young plant asked a big tree: How did you grow to become so tall and strong.
The big tree gave just a one-word answer: Storms.
When we were young, we were brought up in a loving environment.
We experienced love and we had an idealistic view about a world of loving people.
And then the storms of life came.
It was people who brought about those storms in our lives.
We encountered people who were unloving, unkind and unforgiving.
The storms of life shook our understanding of love and tested our roots of love.
But there were also loving people who came along our way and they helped us to believe in love.
We also came to know Jesus who showed us God’s love and taught us to love our neighbour as ourselves.
The 1st reading also tells us that love is the answer to every one of the commandments of God.
So, if we really want to follow Jesus, we must believe in love and walk the way of love.
There will still be storms, but with Jesus, those storms will make us strong.
And we will also tell others that love is the answer to every storm in life.