TUESDAY HOMILY: 4TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B

TUESDAY HOMILY: 4TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B

THEME: HOW IS YOUR HOME?

BY: FR. KARABARI PAUL

‘I’m doing the very best I can…at home, where it counts.’
Psalm 101:2

After King David’s affair with Bathsheba, the prophet Nathan told him, ‘The sword shall never depart from your house’ (2 Samuel 12:10). And it happened. His son Amnon raped his half-sister Tamar, and because David had lost his moral authority at home, he did nothing about it. When his other son Adonijah staged a coup, ‘his father…never crossed him at any time by asking, “Why have you done so?”’ (1 Kings 1:6). If ever there was a time David needed to be a husband and father, this was it. As a leader, he unified Israel, won wars, and brought the ark of the covenant back to Jerusalem. But with his own family, he blew it. No wonder he ‘went up by…the Mount of Olives, and wept’ (2 Samuel 15:30). And in the First Reading of today (2Samuel 18:9- I 0.14b.24-25a.30-19:3), when he heard of his son Absalom’s untimely death, he cried, ‘If only I had died in your place!’ And when he faced death himself, instead of sending for his wife and children, his servants hired a ‘young woman…and she cared for the king’ (1 Kings 1:4).

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The man who made strangers of his own family died in a stranger’s arms. It is too late to change David’s story, but not yours! If you succeed in your career and fail at home, your achievements will be hollow. Apart from your relationship with God, your first priority should be to love your spouse and dedicate yourself to the children in your care. David wrote, ‘I’m doing the very best I can…at home, where it counts.’ Sadly, David’s best wasn’t good enough. But by God’s grace, your story can be different! One thing I have consistently told friends and parishioners is that if we fail to make our children absolve peace as their disposition, they will give us war at a time we desire peace, and if we fail to give them God, the world will give them devil. We have to do what we have to do at the appropriate time. If we miss any stage, we may not be able to correct our shortcomings again. Let us not be a wonderful manager or career professional at work but a bad home manager. GOD IS STILL ON THE THRONE. May God bless your home with peace and love through Christ Our Lord Amen. Good morning.

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