I used to drive by an abandoned house on my way to run errands, and it was definitely an eye sore to the neighborhood. In fact, I wanted it to be torn down. However, someone saw something special, or worthy of saving, about the structure of the house - and it's now undergoing an incredible transformation. It was reduced to its shell and is being rebuilt...
The transformation of this once dilapidated house confirmed the adage that what is junk for one person, can be a treasure to another.
In the Scriptures today we hear how Moses had an encounter with God and when he returned to share what he experienced, people were frightened. His face lit up. The holiness of his encounter with the Divine was written all over his face.
The encounters were a confirmation that meeting the divine changes our appearance. For some it may be an inward change, but that also becomes noticeable to others.
The history of humanity is a story of our trying to find something other than God to make us happy. Though baptized and made in the image and likeness of God and holding a treasure in earthen vessels, we tend to accumulate things that mask the divine spark within us.
We all know what it is to wear masks and what wearing a mask does to us. It hides our face and people can’t even recognize us anymore. Wearing a mask can make some of us irritable, be seen as limiting our freedom. It can even make us do and act in ways that are uncharitable, resisting the idea that we are being forced to conform.
A mask of a different kind can do the same thing to our person - covering over the divine spark that is within but may be buried under the surface.
Jesus spoke of a treasure that is buried, but once found, a person will go to great lengths to secure it. We have a treasure: ourselves. Some of us are like that house I alluded to that was run down and thought to be of no value - until someone thought otherwise and rebuilt it.
Remember the saying, God does not make junk! He sees and knows the good in each one of us.
Through prayer, family prayer, the sacraments, and good works we can renew the spark of the divine in each of us and allow His divinity to shine through us as it did through Moses.
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