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So this Gospel kept popping up in my life all week long… Tuesday night we read it and talked about it at the Pastoral Council meeting… Saturday we read and talked about it at my MFP class… and I had to prepare to read/teach it at the first Faith Formation class of the year… as well as hear it proclaimed in church on Sunday morning… So before I start some of my observations, lets get the cast straight (at least as i intrepret it)… Landowner = God      Laborers = us       The days wages/payment = the Kingdom of Heaven

1. There are often people who refuse to believe that some people could have gone to heaven. Some people assume that since a person made some large mistakes in their life (murder, denying God, etc…) They will definitely not be in heaven… I believe that we don’t know when that last moment of judgement is, we don’t know when God asks for the last time… This scripture seems to imply that God is more accepting than most of us can imagine… and that even those who come to him late will recieve the same reward..

2. This part seems like one I need to remember sometimes… as believers we have agreed to the payment/reward of the kingdom of heaven… as someone who works hard for her church it is hard to accept that people who turn to God in the last moments may get that same reward…

3. Lastly… the workers who weren’t working all day weren’t working because they were never asked…