"Be a good girl!"

"...and what the Lord requires of you:

Only to do the right and to love goodness,

and to walk humbly with your God."

Micah 6:8

 

I never walked out the door, the entire time I was growing up, without the command from my mother, "Be a good girl!" I can still hear the words ringing in my head.  And this is, basically, what the prophet Micah is telling us today.  It sounds so easy but we all know it isn't.  Because each component--doing the right, loving goodness and walking humbly with God becomes more complicated when we factor in our human-ness.  Our human need to feed our egos, justify ourselves, to be liked and admired, all seem to work against us.  Yesterday we heard a wonderful homily about how our judgments of others can really trip us up on our walk with God.  So many things loom ahead of us as we try to do the right, love goodness and walk humbly with God.  The most important thing we have in our favor, though, is that God loves us and is more than willing to help us do the right, love goodness and walk humbly.  All we need to do is recognize our own difficulties and short-comings and seek God's help.  God will be right there to lend a hand!  Love, heidi