Sometimes I think I don’t realise how powerful a word or sentence can be particularly to the person it may be directed at.  It can inspire, infuriate or hurt the recipient.

 I now understand that you ascertain the setting, gauge the atmosphere and make your point ensuring it is relevant to the context and provides meaning to the person or people it is intended for.

In this weeks Gospel, Jesus says,

‘”For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it. What does it profit them if they gain the whole world, but lose or forfeit themselves?”

For the crowd and Jesus’ disciples did they understand what he was saying or did they find that it didn’t pertain to them?

My interpretation is that it is a call to be unselfish and always think of others both in our words and actions. Hence in our relationships both with God and others our rewards will be greater than putting ourselves first.