Last Saturday evening as I was getting ready to go to sleep, I sat on the edge of my bed, took off my eyeglasses, placed them on the bed’s edge, and went to the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth. This is a daily ritual for me that works without a problem except I usually keep the eyeglasses with me and take them off to wash my face at the bathroom sink.

But I did not do that last Saturday.

As I returned to my bedroom and was about to shut off the light, I once again sat at the edge of my bed right on my glasses. I do not remember ever doing that before in my 71 years of life. Usually, I keep the eyeglasses with me and take them off by the bathroom sink. Why did I not do it this time? Who knows. As for those glasses, well they did not survive well under the weight of my growing body. The frame was twisted in one direction and then slightly in an another. The nose piece looked like it was an earring. It was another senior moment.

I then remembered what my mom and dad told me often growing up. They would say, “Tommy, there is a place for everything and everything in its place,” meaning the best way to stay well organized is to keep things in their correct positions (or place).

Isn’t the same thing true about our faith? If we do not keep things in their correct place in terms of our knowledge about what Jesus teaches us, we can become skewed and twisted in our understandings. The result is we may not see what is meant to be seen but only see what we limit ourselves to think about versus what God wants us to know.

As we approach the Holy Week Triduum and the Easter, let’s reflect on what we find in the Gospel readings and listen closely to what Father shares with us in his homilies. Let’s be left with that deep sense of wonder and awe about how much we are loved by Jesus who suffered so much for each of us to save us from our sins, and prepare a path for us to share eternal happiness with Him in heaven.

The noun, rumination, means a deep considered thought about something.

-By Deacon Tom Gryzbek