WHAT HAPPENED TO CAPITALISM?

This devotional was sent to me by my good friend Robert Walters.

“Jesus said to the crowd, ‘Is a lamp acquired to be put under a bushel basket or hidden under a bed?”
Mark 4:21-22

God didn't love us so that we could hide His love from others. We have been loved to give it away. Jesus did not develop a spirituality that was to be hidden in the Church. The Eucharist is an awesome gift from God; but we are fed in the Eucharist in order to give it away.We can learn so much more about Jesus than we now understand; but we have been called to remake the earth in the image of God. Most of us will not perform great actions to change the world but we can do it one person at a time. It must begin in our families. There are so many people that are much nicer to strangers than they are to their own family. We have been called to create our families as families of God, families of love. Instead of taking each other for granted, we need to let each other know how precious they are and how much we appreciate them. When we praise one another's goodness we are really praising God from which the goodness comes.Just as communism is a system that destroyed its society from within because it was a materialistic system, capitalism can destroy us from within because it is a materialistic system. When I was a child Christians Christianized capitalism. The customer was always right; employers took care of their employees. In those days people could always trust the people that served them from the mechanic to the plumber. They never over charged or fixed things that didn't need fixing. Today we see the results of capitalism gone amuck. The greed and selfishness of so many have destroyed our economy. All of us who are involved with the public have been called to be servants, to treat others the way we should like to be treated. Those of you who have businesses have been called to serve your customers. Pagans work in order to make money; Christians work in order to serve others. The great irony is that if we serve others we will be very busy because people love to do business with people that they trust.The most important action that any of us can perform is how we love. We have been called to love others the way that God loves us.

Prayer for the day:

Father, help me to see how important I am to you so that you can transform our world. We pray this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.