Monday of the 3rd week of Lent
First reading – 2 Kings 5:1-15
This is reading which calls our attention to the Plan of God which is revealed to us through the simplest people around. This is the story where the Lord guides the history through the servants and not through the kings. A servant girl from Israel reveals the possibility of the healing for Naaman. The Naaman and his wife followed the word of that servant girl. And Naaman went to Israel. Then when the Prophet Elisha said to go and take bath in the Jordan, Naaman became angry. But again, we read, “But his servants approached him and said, ‘My father, if the prophet had asked you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? All the more reason, then, when he says to you, “Bathe, and you will become clean.”’ So, he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, as Elisha had told him to do. Naaman listening to the words of his servants. The Plan of God is revealed through the simple and humble circumstances in our life. The big signs are easy to read but small signs are difficult to recognize. But small signs are equally important and so necessary to be open and sensible to the small signs in our life. Let’s reflect: Lent is a time to train ourselves to see and recognize the humble circumstances through which God speaks to us.
Monday 13 March
