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Good News Reflections:
Making scripture meaningful to your daily life
by Terry Modica

There is no evil that God cannot or will not defeat by redeeming it into something useful for his kingdom.

Good News Reflection for:

Wednesday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
October 29, 2025

Today’s Prayer:

Jesus, when it is my turn to go home to You, I hope You receive me with the doors open telling me, “Come, blessed of my Father.” Help me listen to Your Holy Spirit and follow Your teachings until my last breath. Amen.

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Today’s Readings:

Romans 8:26-30
Ps 13:4-6
Luke 13:22-30
bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/102925.cfm
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All things are working for your good

When you walk to your mailbox, into church, through a parking lot, down the street, or anywhere else that your feet take you, what do you usually look at? Are you watching your feet? And the ground go by? Or is your head up? Are you observing how beautiful the clouds look and appreciating the way the tree branches intermingle and raise their leaves toward heaven?

Keep walking. When there’s a crowd blocking your path, do you look for the easiest route around and through them? Or do you look at those people with admiration for God’s handiwork and recall that he loves them all?

Directing our sight upward is great spiritual exercise. It helps us to understand and live in the truth of today’s first reading. As Saint Paul points out, instead of focusing on our weaknesses, instead of noticing how our prayers are not being answered, instead of paying attention to our insufficiency and powerlessness when praying for big needs, we should remember the love and power of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God partners with us, leads us, and prays with us. In whatever we’re lacking, whatever’s missing or not yet accomplished, God’s Spirit within us can fill up the gaps and provide peace.

Look at that! Look at the goodness of God! Keep your eyes on Jesus!

No matter how bad a trial has been, no matter how destructive it seems, if we give it to Jesus, he redeems it. Redemption means that something bad or worthless is converted into something good (like redeeming a coupon at the grocery store, which is just a piece of paper until we use it to buy something).

Jesus always uses everything for the good of those who love him. We can benefit from even the worst of hardships. The benefit might be more inner strength, or fuller compassion, or special blessings and graces. There is no evil that God cannot or will not defeat by redeeming it into something useful for his kingdom.

There is no victimization without victory if we turn it over to Jesus.

Of course, asking God to redeem a bad situation isn’t enough. We have to keep our eyes on Jesus, looking upward to see the good that he raises from the bad. We have to embrace what the Father gives us instead of turning away and pouting, “But that’s not what I want! Why won’t You give me what I’ve been praying for? Why won’t You do it my way?”

When we have difficulty seeing the good that God is doing in a bad situation, we can pray what the psalmist did in the responsorial Psalm today: “Give light to my eyes … let my heart rejoice in Your salvation; let me sing that the Lord has been good to me.”

We experience joy in the midst of suffering when we stop watching the dirty ground beneath us and look up to observe the beauty and the blessings that God has placed around us. This is when we can genuinely proclaim: “All my hope, O Lord, is in Your loving kindness!”

For more on this, use our WordByte: “What does it mean to be an apostle today?” @ https://wordbytes.org/evangelization-ministry/apostle-today/

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