This week’s gospel is all about discipleship. We hear much about discipleship these days. What does it truly mean for me? Each of Jesus’ disciples received a call and so have we. Oh maybe not the same way as He called the 12, but indeed a call. Let’s not forget how much our God really knows us. Recall back in the Old Testament book of Jeremiah when God called him: the word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah, who was a young man at the time. God said to him: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.” Do we believe this? There is nothing more sacred in God’s creation than human life. Each person has been given a call. Some of us still searching for that call, but nonetheless, it’s real. Often it’s not realized until the end of life when we look back and see all the good we have done and the lives we have touched. May I suggest that the call to discipleship is a daily journey—a daily walk with our Jesus. It’s a constant discovering and unfolding of what our God asks of us and in discovering that, we begin to know our purpose in life as we daily follow Him. As we journey, the temptation is always to measure our successes and think we have done very little for humanity and simply give up. Let’s rekindle the fire of our discipleship call once again. Even if we have failed in the past, the future still exists. CS Lewis once said, “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending…”
