Today's Gospel reading was from Luke 2 on the Presentation of the child Jesus in the temple. You are probably familiar with the story of how the man Simeon was ready to die after seeing Jesus because the Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord. What struck me was that this wasn't anything earthshaking. It just seemed to be something that came along at the proper time in God's plan. The entire life of Jesus on earth also seemed to proceed naturally, one event at a time. He remained humble and meek, going about doing the Father's will quietly with dignity. Our own life should be lived like that too with no intention to make our own waves or call attention to ourselves, but to seek and do God's will quietly in his time.
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