Wednesday of week 34 in Ordinary Time
Reading: Daniel 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28
The dramatic scene of Daniel 5 reveals a profound truth about God’s dealings with us: He knows our weaknesses even before we recognize them ourselves, and He speaks into our lives not to condemn but to call us to transformation. King Belshazzar is confronted with a mysterious message written on the wall—a divine interruption exposing the emptiness of his pride, arrogance, and forgetfulness of God. Yet even this moment of judgment is, at its core, an invitation: a chance to awaken, to see one’s life truthfully, and to turn toward the path of humility and wisdom. Daniel, filled with the Spirit of God, becomes the voice that interprets this call. God does the same with us—He communicates through events, people, Scripture, and the quiet stirrings of conscience, urging us to leave behind what diminishes us and step into the person He created us to be. His knowledge of our weakness is never meant to shame us, but to guide us toward a new heart, a new vision, a renewed life shaped by His truth. Let’s reflect: Am I attentive to the ways God speaks into my weaknesses, allowing His guidance to transform me into the person He desires me to become?
Don Giorgio