CARRION ON MANNA?
«For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together» (Matthew 24:28).
WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I remember walking one day with my father through the countryside where our house was. My attention was drawn by some birds flying tirelessly in a circle. That’s when I discovered the existence of the vultures that love to eat meat from dead animals. The dictionary defines them as «large raptorial birds that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion.»
Metaphorically speaking, «feeding on carrion [dead bodies]» is sometimes also a human practice. Gossiping, whether well-founded or unfounded; rumors we create; the slander and criticism we spread about other people are like dead meat, a foul-smelling carrion that we enjoy when, in fact, it should be repulsive. In other words, when we adopt those practices, we become like vultures.
The gossipers, while defending themselves by saying they are well-intentioned, look like vultures hovering around a dead body. They are subtle, imperceptible, with a verbal sharpness to convey all that concerns gossip. Furthermore, they add non-existent details to make their dead meat feast more exciting.
Let us stop and think . . . what’s behind someone who enjoys gossip and slander? Analysts and scholars of human behavior claim that gossipers are people with self-esteem issues, who seek to nurture themselves by speaking ill about others. Some hilariously boast that they have the «little worm» of gossip Actually, I think it’s more than a little worm. It’s the same serpent in the Garden of Eden that «tricked» Eve and fools’ people who like to eat fruit that should be forbidden in the mind of every Christian woman.
The Bible says that the tongue is an unwieldy organ, like a small fire that lights a great bonfire; but, besides the control of the tongue, we have to keep an eye on our thoughts, get rid of our personal misery, forgive and appreciate ourselves, regain the status of God’s daughters, and stop the slavery of sin.
Dead meat isn’t food for a woman of God. Put a merciful seal on your interpersonal relationships by taking day by day, minute by minute, the manna that comes from heaven. Then you and everyone who comes along your pathway will be also nourished with real food.
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Take From: Daily Devotions for Women’s 2021
«BRUSHSTROKES OF GOD’S LOVE»
BY: Erna Alvarado Poblete
Collaborators: Lorina Maya & Alejandra Zavala