Jesus already did a lot. The Gospel says that the great crowds brought the lame, the blind, the deformed, the mute, and many others to Him and He cured them. It is safe to assume that Jesus did not send anybody away, and we know from Matthew’s Gospel that there were many: about four thousand men, not counting women and children.
It would have been more than justified for Jesus to say to Himself, “I have done enough,” “I am done for the day,” but instead, the Lord kept going. He ordered the crowds to sit down for a meal and He fed them. Because in Jesus’s heart, there is no limit to His mercy. His love for us is simply insatiable. Just as we think He could not possibly do anything more for us, He proves us wrong and He overdelivers, again, and again, and again.
I am sure that when others watched Mother Seton at her work, they thought the same thing: “she already did so much, surely, she can’t do more.” But she did, because she learned that from Jesus. If one truly experiences the depth of Christ’s love – the kind of love which knows no bounds – one would never settle for anything less in one’s dealings with others.
May this time of Advent teach us to be more like Jesus and more like St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. We already do a lot, I know, but more can be done because there is simply no limit to what God can accomplish in the hearts of those who experience His love.
