All in God’s Hands

Carmelite homily for Lectionary 159 | Sunday, November 17, 2019

In today’s Gospel we some super-heavy-duty and scary end of the world scenarios where nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there’ll be earthquakes and plagues and omens in the sky and people will arrest you and haul you before judges.  And Jesus says “do not be terrified.”  I think John of the Cross says the same thing.  He says, “If the whole world should crumble and come to an end and all things go wrong, endure all with tranquility and with peaceful equanimity.”  Why?  Because it’s all in God’s hands.  No matter what happens – today, in your life, in the world, at the end of the world – endure all with tranquility and peaceful equanimity.  Great advice.