Recently I saw a video making the rounds on Facebook. One of its claims was that God does not care about whether your sports team wins or loses.
This brought to mind an excellent article which I read on a Christian parenting website some months ago, and which I lamentably cannot locate. It was written by a father reflecting that he came to understand God’s love for us and every detail of our lives, by thinking about his own love for his children and their beloved possessions, in particular three ratty old stuffed toys.
Because he loves his children, he loves what they love. What they care about matters to him, not because of the intrinsic value of the objects, but because whatever concerns his beloved children, concerns him. Their happiness and fulfillment concerns him.
Certainly, as God is transcendent, He possesses an awesome majesty that goes far beyond the nitty-gritty of our mundane lives. In one sense, it really does not matter to Him if a sports team wins or loses. But at the same time, God is Love. He is the God Who made Himself vulnerable to us, sacrificing Himself in order to save us from eternal damnation and separation from Him. He cares profoundly about every detail of our lives. Jesus listened when His mother observed the lack of wine at the wedding in Cana, and He provided it in abundance, performing His first miracle and beginning His public ministry. Little things can have a profound impact which we cannot foresee.
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When I was about 12 years old, I was upset when my mother gave away a little packet of sherbet powder from Disneyland, not because of the sherbet itself but because I had planned to use the tiny spade-shaped spoon inside for my Barbie dolls’ garden. A decade or so later, my brother returned from a trip to Disneyland with a packet of sherbet for me. I didn’t really appreciate the sherbet itself, but my heart was filled with joy because he had remembered that detail from my childhood. As the Chinese say, 爱屋及乌 (ài wū jí wū): if you love someone, you will love even the crow on the roof of his house.
The Church has given us the wonderful gift of patron saints for every possible profession and situation. God’s heavenly family cares about every member of the Church on Earth, and they are always available to us, encouraging us on our earthly pilgrimage (cf. Hebrews 12:1).
So, although God may not be as invested in the outcome of a sports match as you are, He definitely does care about it because He cares deeply for you, and He takes joy in sharing every aspect of your life, no matter how trivial it may seem to others. God, the ground of our being, sustains us in every moment, the magnificent and the mundane, and through each moment He grants us the outpouring of His sublime love.
We need to realize how rich our heavenly father is still we have the confidence to ask for amazing things like St. Thérèse asked for snow on the day of her profession.
— Fr Matthew P. Schneider LC (@FrMatthewLC) May 30, 2018
"I don’t know if I’ve already told you how much I love #snow ? I had always wished that on the day I received the #Carmelite Habit, nature would be adorned in white just like me."
~St #Therese of #Lisieux @sanctulisieux
Thanks to https://t.co/vEFX0QKtzb for the beautiful image! pic.twitter.com/KP9xxFW427— Carmelite Quotes (@carmelitequotes) January 10, 2018
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Sports and the entertainment world has destroyed many relationships with God. Because most people use these activities to distract them from God. And we should be focusing on Catholic thinkers, not secularist.