Progress even more

Are you happy? Do you feel content?

You may be a loser.

Sometimes we may in fact, by the goodness of God, be blessed with moments of relative happiness and contentment, but complete happiness and absolute contentment can be experienced only when God brings us to be immersed eternally in the vision of his infinite love.

If we stop short of that, if we seek and relish only happiness and contentment in this world, sooner or later we will be bitterly disappointed. Even in this life, the absence of growth comes with the onset of death.

So both of today’s readings (1 Thes. 4:9-11 and Mt. 25:14-30) exhort us not to be content and passive with what we have – like the lazy servant who buried his master’s treasure and consequently lost it all – but “to progress even more” in the ways and the grace and the service of God.