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The two widows in today's readings are two unlikely champions of faith that offer one powerful message about walking by faith and love in the midst of their sorrow and grief.

The Ten Commandments can be summed up and pared down to two great commandments: love of God, love of neighbor.

At various challenging times in our lives, all of God’s People tend to make Bartimaeus’ words to Jesus our own: “Teacher, I want to see.”

He tells the Zebedee brothers and all his disciples that they should never seek the spotlight, they should never crave prestige and authority over others, and they should always act as servants and not masters.

Following Jesus has never been easy. Every day we must choose our treasures. Is our treasure having everything go our way or is our treasure that everything go according to God’s mysterious design?