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Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

Today's Gospel: Luke 7:31-35

One of life’s challenges is answering the question, “What should we have for supper?” I wish I had a dollar for every time I wished the grocery store had an aisle end-cap with two sections labeled “I don’t care” and “I don’t know” so I could just pick out something and make someone happy. (Mom tip: when my boys were little and they were either over-tired or supper was lackluster, we ate by candlelight.)

Jesus knows about finickiness. In this Gospel reading, Jesus tells us a parable of children who play a fun song and no one danced. They played a sad song and no one cried.

The people rejected John, the greatest prophet, because he didn’t eat food or drink wine. Then they reject Jesus because he did eat and drink, but He did it with tax collectors and sinners. (I imagine Jesus doing a facepalm.)

The people, especially the Pharisees, were using superficial arguments as their excuse to reject what John and Jesus came to teach. What Jesus says next could be prophetic:“Wisdom is vindicated by all her children,” or, we will know what is true and right (wisdom) by its results, or the fruit it produces (children).

John is scary-looking but he baptizes and points to the Lamb of God. Jesus, the Messiah, heals and raises from the dead, but He eats with the lowest class of people. Both John and Jesus were wisdom (truth and right), and were vindicated by the fruit of wisdom, the resurrection of Jesus.

You and I are children of wisdom, too. The fruit of our lives, what we do and say, reflects what we believe. What an amazing opportunity God has given us: He has allowed us to carry on His mission of walking in His wisdom.

 

Ponder:

 

Has it become too easy to judge someone by the way they look or act before we see the way that God wants us to care for them?

 

Pray:


Jesus, help me to slow down. Help me to see others through Your eyes. Help me to be wisdom so that the fruit that others see in me comes only from You.

 



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Copyright 2025 Julie Storr

 

About the Author

Julie Storr

Julie Storr

Julie Storr surprised herself when she went from “never ever going to be Catholic” to a lover of the lectionary. Her thirst for the Faith is never quenched and she is always surprised at the depth of the relationship with Christ that one can find in the Catholic Church. She and her husband live in Pocahontas, Iowa. Visit her website at LectioTheLiturgy.com.