to each his own - 32nd week wednesday 2013

There was this unnatural scene in National Geographic when animals who would have ordinarily fought each other to the death and animals who would have stalked and eaten the other are seen together on a hill surrounded by flood water.  They were not killing each other, and nobody was eating the other.  They were there standing saving themselves from the flood and waiting for the waters to recede.  So lions and cheetahs stood together and so were the zebras and the gazelles.  It was an unnatural scene created by a supernatural circumstance.  If the circumstance were natural, they would be meters and even miles apart from each other.

This is the same with the lepers in our gospel.  In normal circumstances a Jew would never want to cross path with a Samaritan, much more go together.  But the circumstances were not normal.  They were lepers and all were considered outcast and so they manage to stay together.  But when they were healed things became different because things became normal.  The Samaritan went back and the Jews went their way.  To each his own because now the situation became normal.

Many times Filipinos show the best of who we are when things are not normal, when things are, lets call it supernatural.  Yesterday the television networks have to send home volunteers because they could no longer be accommodated.  Even the politicians who won’t let go of the PDAF a month ago suddenly resolve to forgo it so that it can be aligned to help victims of calamities. 

Abnormal circumstances can make us the best of what we can become.  But as I said let’s not call it abnormal.  It is supernatural.