Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29

In these verses, I am pulled outside of myself, responding to and praising the Lord as the Master Builder, the one who set the rejected cornerstone in its place, the one who is still building.

In his “A Future Not Our Own,” Archbishop Romero notes:

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of
liberation in realizing this.

This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.

It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning…

We may never see the end results, but that is the
difference between the master builder and the worker….

The world is not my own to perfect, nor is it to be ignored. We join in with the Master Builder, joining in the procession of praise, liberated in knowing that what we do not have to do everything; instead, we join in, freed from guilt, joyfully serving the budding Kingdom.

—Scott Rumpsa