Commentary of the Gospell

October 25, 2022

God of Small Things

It is a natural human inclination to imagine God as the biggest, the grandest, and the most spectacular. Imagining God to be so somehow makes us compensate for our smallness and creatureliness. And because of such imagination, we miss God when he appears before us in forms least expected. We look up to God; but as a wise guru observed, “people miss seeing God because they are too unwilling to look down”; and look around, perhaps. God and His Kingdom often follow the dynamics of the mustard seed and the yeast in today’s gospel parables: small, subtle, almost invisible; but they keep transforming the world around. By the same logic, to be part of this Kingdom, we do not have to do spectacular things; it is enough to do small things with great love: Like a husband and a wife respecting and caring for each other and doing the little things to make everyone’s life a bit easier and happier.

Paulson Veliyannoor, CMF - Claretian Publications Philippines