Saints Peter and Paul Jesuit Detroit

Crossing downtown Detroit in lunch time traffic is not the easy task one imagines it to be. Pedestrians throng the intersections and continue to cross long after the light has changed. And the streets of downtown follow the "French" plan of radial streets converging in a twisted mass of intersections.

I navigated my way across downtown and found a handy parking lot behind Saints Peter and Paul and raced into Mass. The gospel reading that day centered around Jesus telling his disciples that the harvest is great and the workers few. This is a  gospel reading that many of us know so well. And yet hearing it that day I couldn't help but think that it's so very relevant today.

How many of us are willing to engage in the hard work required of us as Christians? Jesus doesn't shy away from the fact that following him will be difficult. In our world today I can't help but wonder if we as a culture have become adverse to difficulty. What is difficult is not worth attempting. Christianity, The Way, is difficult and that's precisely what makes it so powerful.

It can be difficult to love
It can be difficult to help others
It can be difficult to see Jesus in every face
It can be difficult to forgive

Is this why there are so few "workers" for the "harvest"?