The occasion should remind us that what we begin we should
end well, that ending well ultimately means making Christ our king,
the “all in all” in us, the be-all and end-all of our life, and that
the way to achieve it is to learn to love the way Christ has loved us
and continues to love us.
Learning the art of ending things in general well is not a
matter of solving all our problems and perfectly achieving all the
earthly goals we have set for ourselves. That will never happen. When
we die, there will still be unfinished businesses, let alone, problems
unsolved, challenges not yet tackled.
Rather, ending things well is a matter of reconciling
ourselves with God and with everybody else. Thus, everyday, before we
go to bed, we should make sure that we ask forgiveness from God for
any weakness, fault or sin we may have committed during the day, as
well as asking forgiveness from anyone whom we may have wronged in
some way.
We should also be forgiving of anyone who may also have
done us some wrong. That way, we would be at peace with everyone as we
take our daily rest at night that should somehow be an image of our
eternal rest with God in heaven for all eternity. Yes, we should be
doing this even if there are still things to be done, fixed and
improved. This is how we should end the day until the end of our life
comes.
We have to remind ourselves that in the end it is Christ
who will fix everything. Ours is simply to go along with his will and
ways as best that we can, knowing that our best can never be enough or
that our best can always be made better.
Now, if we want Christ to be our everything, our king in
the fullest sense of the word, then we should follow as closely
possible the new or the last commandment that he told us. It’s the
commandment that summarizes all the other previous commandments told
to us. And that is to love one another as he, Christ, has loved us and
continues to do so.
It’s a love that knows no bounds, that always takes the
initiative. It’s freely given even if it is not properly reciprocated.
We should see to it that everything that we do here on earth, or that
we get involved in, no matter how mundane, technical, insignificant
humanly speaking, should redound to the development and growth of love
that is a participation of the love Christ himself has lived and
commanded us to have.
And that can mean, as we are reminded in the gospel of the
Solemnity of Christ the King, that we truly reach out to the poor,
those in the peripheries, and even those who may be in the mainstream
of society but who are unlovable because of how they are and of what
they have done.
This is the love that is expected of us and that would
resemble us with Christ. We have to go all the way to loving even the
enemies, as Christ himself has told us. This is how we can truly make
Christ our King!
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