Luke 14:25-33
Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, “If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, `This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace. So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Homily:
Everything in our lives, including life, tries to re-emphasise their priority. This creates a very noisy internal and external environment, as you’re continually being screamed at, and pulled in different directions.
A life of piety is one in which you say to everything, “Peace, be still”. And then you listen to what the silence which follows whispers.
It is a journey without a finish line, because the journey is the finish line.
Move forward hand-in-hand with the word.