The Minority

December 6, Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent
Daily Readings: Is 40:1-11, Ps 96:1-2, 3 and 10ac, 11-12, 13, Mt 18:12-14

There are times when we feel that “the world is better off without me.”

We think that we are just a tiny speck in this big world and that our disappearance will not bother anyone. 

However, in the First Reading, it says there that “like a shepherd, he feeds his flock".
in his arms he gathers the lambs,” and in the Gospel, “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray?” 

The Lord will go look for us even if we are just a few. He will love us even if there’s only a handful of us who are broken or need help. We are not a minority in God’s eyes. His Son, whatever we may be, will always be there to care for us. Remember: he dined and mingled with sinners, even if people questioned and shunned Him for doing these things. That is how God’s love is. We may always run away or shy away from it, but it is still there. 

A mother will still go on loving a child of hers who is considered a “black sheep of the family.” No matter what the relatives or her other children might say, she will continue caring for her child. Her family might scorn her for doing so, and society will judge her, but she will not stop loving her child. 

But that is what God would do. Look for the minority. Why save those who are already safe? Like the mother, God would always look out for the minority, even if sometimes we don’t feel that way. 

There is no such thing as the black sheep or minority in God’s eyes. In today’s reading, it says: “and if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.”