25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Matthew 20:1-6 Why be envious because I am generous?

Observing myself responding to this piece I notice how I’m drawn to the grumbling. I too experience this as unfair.

Then, as I slowly focus on the landowner, I realize that it would have cost him much less if he’d used my standard.

This guy doesn’t think like us or see things as we do. He’s got a huge heart.

Suddenly, I experience myself being drawn toward him but I also notice that as I move toward him and his way of doing things – his generosity – my heart is expanding, it feels much healthier, and as it expands it reveals to me how much smaller my heart was becoming as I identified with the grumbling, with our way of doing things.

I trust we all realize that this guy – the landowner – is the heart of God, the most beautiful and the biggest heart of all!