But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned?
It is no longer good for anything
but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
You are the light of the world.
A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.
Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket;
it is set on a lampstand,
where it gives light to all in the house.
Just so, your light must shine before others,
that they may see your good deeds
and glorify your heavenly Father.”
REFLECTION
"If salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything."
A couple of days ago our family was trying to figure out why salt has an expiration day. Does it really ever go bad? What happened if it did? Does it lose its saltiness? Or does it become moldy?
Regardless of what the answer might be, we know that salt, and other spices, enhance the flavor of diverse foods.
Are we, by our example, supposed to bring that "flavor" into our life experiences? Into other people's lives?
What is that "flavor" since by ourselves we are mere fallen humans?
When I receive Holy Communion by the hands of the Priest or the Deacon, I think on how wonderful our Lord is to physically come into earth, and physically and spiritually enter into our bodies to fully transform us. To bring us closer to Him. So we can be forever with Him.
If I want to allow Jesus to work in me, I need to remember the words of St. John the Baptist: "He must increase; I must decrease." (Jn 3:30). So that salt, that flavor can season and sanctify our everyday lives.
Do we accept that gift of Jesus in our lives? Do we allow the Holy Spirit's work in our life? Or do we try to make our own rules, our own "flavors" to season our lives?
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