The ways of God dealing with mere mortals is profoundly amazing. In the First Reading today Abraham has sent his servant to get a wife for Isaac from the land of his father. God directs the process and Rebekah goes with Abraham’s servant to become Isaac’s wife. In the Second Reading, St. Paul acknowledges that he does not find that kind of divine guidance, and instead he does all the wrong things! Jesus, in the Gospel, notes that people did not like John the Baptizer because he was too ascetic, or Jesus, himself, because he ate and drank. Yet in the face of all that, Jesus invites us to find peace and rest in him.

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