Daily Reflection 28 Mar 07

When we do not take or make the time to listen to Jesus and his words, we have fallen victim to the control or power of someone or somethings. In today's readings Daniel presents three men who make it crystal clear that in their lives it is only God, the God of their ancestors, that they serve.
It is so easy to build an idol like the molten calf described by Daniel. Looking at the life I live, do I take time to conside if I have created an idol, a molten calf, that, even if it is good in itself, keeps me distant from God? It is so awfully easy to lose sight of the Father in our culture --- we are so often running from one thing to the next. We easily forget God is with us. Oh, we might think of our Creator God, our forgiving God, occasionally but each day is filled with many opportunities to link to God. Does it happen?