Church of the Nativity

Can you give God 1%? Can you give Him just 1% of your time in a day in prayer?  There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 1440 minutes in a day and if we were to give Him 1% of our time, that would be 15 minutes in a day.  

Today we celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday and when I think about what that means along with this reading I think about the time I spent in Guatemala. I was down there learning Spanish, back early in my seminary formation, and there was this lake that I got to go to a couple times. It’s a beautiful lake.  It’s like a mile deep and it’s surrounded by 3 volcanoes and it’s called Lake Atitlan. 

This Gospel we just heard is a very important one to me. One of the interesting features of it is that it is one of two times where God breathed into humanity, and since there are only two instances, that makes it important to reflect on.