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Today's readings might pose a good Lenten question: What are the whales that have swallowed you up?
The consequences of so many ways that we may have turned our lives at one time or another surely can be considered as those times that we may have been living in the belly of the whale. The consequences of immorality: how that kind of turning away from God can swallow anyone up in a duplicitous, harmful and truly painful way of living. The consequences of gossiping or undermining other people: how that kind of damaging God's people can swallow someone up in great negativity that reaches far beyond its beginnings. The consequences of greed: how letting things and people become little gods that swallow someone up in an addictive living, having to have more, more and even more.
Now, during the season of Lent, is a time for us to consider if there are whales that have swallowed up a part of our lives. Lent is the time when God is giving us the Jonah opportunity: getting out of those whales that make our lives so painful and annoying. Imagine one's life, one's family's life, one's neighborhood, one's parish, own city might become if all of us "heard" the call to repentence that Jonah preached in Nineveh. The "evil generation" that Luke describes in the gospel reading should give us pause. Is this a description of any part of my life is what each of us can ask ourselves? And remember, like Jonah, one candle can light up a city!
