Lost Again?

A seventy-five-year old man went to the doctor’s office for his annual physical checkup. The doctor was greatly impressed with the man’s superb condition. He said, “You have the body of a man twenty-five years younger. What is the secret of your extraordinarily good health?” The man replied, “When I was married 50 years ago, my wife and I agreed never to fight. We both hate to quarrel. So whenever things began heating up and it looked as though we were going to have a fight, she would stay in the house and I would go out for a long walk. Consequently, I attribute my good health to the fact that for fifty years I’ve lived pretty much of an outdoor life.”

In today’s Gospel Lesson, Jesus is telling us that if we want to have wholeness of life, if we want to be in top spiritual condition, we’ve got to walk away from anything and everything that threatens our relationship with Him. “Whosoever…