There is nothing left.

There are no alternatives.
There is no hope.
“When we will have eaten this, we will die.”
That is the situation of the widow in today’s first reading.

God forbid that any of us should come to that extreme, but even in our culture of superabundance, some of us still may come to feel like that widow: there is nothing left, there are no alternatives, there is no hope… just one thing more and it’s all over, I’m dead.

It is most especially at times like those that we need to open our ears to hear the word of the Lord and raise our eyes to Him, because it is He who gave us everything we have ever had, it is He who created the world and all that is in it, and it is He who has the power to give us what we truly need: power beyond what we can imagine, gifts better than what we could hope, in ways that we might never expect.

No matter how dark our situation:
there is much more good to come;
there is hope;
there is God,
if only we live in this world for Him