Unexpected Rewards in my Life - 13th Sunday
(73) 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
When have I been rewarded for doing the right thing, when I didn’t expect a reward?
What is the rock and hard place that I’m in (or have been in?)
In the Bible there are seven stories of barren women: three of the four matriarchs, Sarah (Genesis 11:30), Rebekah (25:21), and Rachel (29:31); Hannah, mother of the prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 1-2); the anonymous wife of Manoah, mother of Samson (Judges 13); and the “great woman of Shunem,” also called the Shunammite, an acolyte of the prophet Elisha and Elizabeth.
In the Bible, barrenness refers to the physical inability to conceive, but spiritually, it symbolizes a woman who experiences waiting, disgrace, and unrequited longing. To be a barren woman is to be forced to wait for a deliverance that only the Lord can provide.
It is a powerful metaphor.
Ilia Delio, her book about Jung-- The Not Yet God, Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole [https://maryknollsociety.org/the-not-yet-god-the-not-yet-god-carl-jung-teilhard-de-chardin-and-the-relational-whole-ilia-delio/]
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