1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20 / Mark 1:29-39
The urban lifestyle is a busy and hectic lifestyle.
There are schedules and deadlines to meet, as well as tasks and assignments to complete.
As such, we are gauged and assessed on what we can do, how much we can do and how quickly we can do it.
So the focus is on doing the tasks at hand and being able to complete them.
In the gospel, Jesus had a full day of activity.
After leaving the synagogue, He went to Peter’s house to cure the mother-in-law of her fever.
After sunset, He was exercising His healing ministry.
He cured the sick and He cast out devils from the possessed.
And then in the morning, long before dawn, He went to a lonely place to pray there.
Jesus was busy, but it was not about doing and completing tasks.
Rather, He was with people in their need and being with them.
It was more a ministry of human presence than just doing a task.
And it was in prayer that Jesus entered into the presence of God and to be renewed and strengthened.
Let us follow Jesus in His mission by being present to others.
People are not tasks to be worked on.
People are human beings that need the human touch and human presence.
Let us in our humanness, be God’s presence to others.