The Service of Hiddenness
Membership in a service organization like the Kiwanis Club provides regular opportunities for service to others, regular reminders of the call to think more of others and less of self. It would perhaps seem redundant to address such an august body as this at a time of thanksgiving on matters of servant leadership and humility. It is however also true that as humans our propensity to lose sight of our core values, the temptation to dilute our core ethos will forever be with us and therefore reminders are never to be spurned. Someone has rightly said that the greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none. The first of our two Gospel readings espouses us to a deep rooted humility and invites us to question our motivation for doing good deeds. The second is a bit more problematic, perhaps may even have a repelling effect on some. “Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or ...