Committees, consultants and correct answers.

Matthew 11:25-27

           One of things that I love about my job is the management structure, it's rather small. When we want to accomplish something it is often decided  at my door sill. We also have monthly meetings with all the leaders of the various disciplines in the building to discuss issues and make plans. It is a excellent system and without boasting I will say we have been judged the best facility of our kind in the United States for many years running. In contrast, the associated facility next door to us is large and unwieldy. Committees abound and seem to take forever to accomplish the smallest changes. The contrast is simple versus complex or action versus talking. 

            On a personal level, we might think of how things go when we over think things. Somethings are just simple and straightforward. The more you think or ruminate over them, the more complex it seems.

            When Jesus says that we should remain as simple as a child, he refers to this ability we have to see the truth without making it complicated. This was true of the Apostles who had no formal training and no degrees. It is true of the church even today when the faithful have a sense of what is right and wrong regardless of lengthy arguments, logic, treatises and pronouncements about one issue or another by one Bishop or another or even the Pope. I have said it before that this 'sense of the faithful' actually has a name within the Roman Catholic church and it is called "Sensus Fidelium".  Very often the complex answers of committees and lengthy thought does not yield anything more than obfuscation and wrong judgement. What is revealed to infants (all of us) is quite often the obvious and correct answer.

             So issues of birth control, divorce, married clergy, same sex marriage and the dignity of gay people all are settled really. The faithful have the answers and they are waiting for the 'commiittees to wrap up their work and realize the correct answers that everyone else has held for years.

             

At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and  understanding and revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and  any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."