Make a good day better

Jesus, help me listen to other people's stories about their days, and share my own! Amen.

"Be like servants waiting for their master to come home," Jesus said. "Blessed are the servants who are awake and waiting when their master comes home, even if it's very late. He'll have them sit down, and he'll wait on them! So be ready, because you don't know when I'll be coming back."

What makes a good day even better? Telling someone about it! If something great just happened to you, you can't wait to get home and tell your babysitter, your family, your friends and even total strangers how excited you are.

Even God wants to connect with people like that. In this week's Gospel (Luke 12:35-40), the story Jesus tells shows us how.

When you're happy and enthusiastic about your day, you want to share that happiness. Talking about what's going on helps you to relive the good stuff over and over again.

The story Jesus told about a master and servants is really about God and us. Jesus said that God wants to be in contact with us all the time -- and that God is disappointed when we're not listening and sharing our own stories. We're supposed to be "awake and waiting" for Him all the time.

What makes a good day a little less fun is when no one wants to hear about it, or when there just isn't anyone around to tell.

Jesus' other point in the Gospel story was that He'll come back someday, and He wants us around to celebrate with Him!

Jesus knew that nothing is worse than having great news to share and coming home to an empty house.