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Gerry Gutierrez' Update
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"Me too" movement of Jesus who said, "I thirst." “I thirst.” What opportunity humanity had to invest in God by just offering a
cup of water to Jesus and rightfully inherit the words of welcome from God
himself. “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You
have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.
Come and share your master’s happiness!’ Let me pause here to say that the Lord our God is a happy master
and not as some try to present him as an extremely angry God and a “Terrorist
in Chief.” Add to this thought the following words from, Matthew 25:35-40 35 For I was hungry and you gave me
something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink,
I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed
me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit
me.’ 37 “Then the righteous will answer
him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and
give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger
and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we
see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ 40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I
tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters
of mine, you did for me.” America is the land of opportunities and the influx of immigrants
at the present time in the Southern Border is evidence. What bothers me the most apart from the hypocrisy and double
standard for those who legally come and those who are illegally encouraged to
come is that they have made out tha the USA is the
Promised Land and Heaven itself I am resentful at the nearsightedness of people that see the
visible as more important than the invisible and relentlessly pursue heaven on
earth while the Gates of Heaven are wide open and few entering. The Cartels, the drug traffickers and the “coyotes” are having
great business at “The Border” in human trafficking. In a way I am envious of the “coyotes” because I am also like a
“coyote of God” trying to make a deal by offering the Kingdom of God for a
cup of water. My stroke has made me acutely aware of the needs of the needy and
the value of a cup of cold water. I blush at the thought of how many times I might have
heard Jesus say, “I thirst” and did not recognized the voice of Jesus in
the thirsty. Today “I thirst,” sons of Jacob the digger of wells and you
daughters of Rebecca and the Samaritan women by the well. Jesus thirsts in
me today. When the vinegar of rejection and the gall of despise is all we
offer to each other in times of thirst, we are no different from the Roman
soldiers who mocked Jesus the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. The spirit of Jesus was in the Good Samaritan who saw himself in
the wounded man by the side of the road that leads from Jerusalem to
Jericho. He must have lived life under the motto, “There is me but
by the grace of God.” Let us comfort the needy with the same comfort with which we have
been comforted. Freely give for freely you have received. Let not Cronus
the Pagan god manages your time and life on earth but the kairos
of God or the “timing of God” lead your every step today. Yours as the gentle reminder of the great
and small things of God. Gerry Gutierrez.
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