Twenty-seventh of Year A
October 2008
The theme today is appreciation.
We look at the first reading.
‘My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside;
He spaded it, cleared it of stones, and planted the choicest vines; Within it he built a watchtower, and hewed out a wine press.’
‘My friend’ is God.
I am the vineyard.
God has created me and put me on a beautiful fertile world.
God has given me many gifts and abilities, He has made me to be his daughter or son and has promised that I will inherit His Kingdom if I so wish.
So what happens now? How do I react to this? What is my response?
You do a lot for your child, what sort of response do you hope for?
In the first reading what kind of response did God get?
We are told; ‘Then he looked for the crop of grapes, but what it yielded was wild grapes.’
Poor God! How disappointed he must have been.
So, what sort of grapes am I producing?