12th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Priceless Mt. 10:26-33

When was the last time you bent over to pick up a penny?

When I was young I used to collect soda bottles and turn them in for the money.

2 cents for a 12oz bottle and 3 cents for a 16 oz bottle.

That may not seem like much but candy was a nickel and bubble gum was a penny.

Not anymore.

People see a penny on the ground and they just keep going.

But not our Heavenly Father.

Every sparrow is priceless;

Every hair on our head is counted.

Nothing is too small or insignificant or Him.

In this world however

Who really cares for us?

We have become faceless consumers

Who are only known by our ID and Password.

Voters who are courted in November and forgotten in December.

Human beings who now have to talk to machines on the phone

And wait for the machine to respond to our needs.

And while every business claims to put the customer first

Do you really believe them?

We are merely names on a balance sheet that numbers in the billions.

So if one or two are lost

It is no big deal.

Jesus comes along however and teaches that each and every one of us is a big deal;

No one is too small or too insignificant to count and to matter to His Heavenly Father.

The world may look at us as just a penny on the ground,

Not worth much individually

But Jesus reminds us that Our Heavenly Father

Bends over and picks up every single penny.

Because each one is priceless in His eyes.

God Bless