Who are you, Salome? Young, beautiful, talented, and somewhat inexperienced. Sometimes, it is more visible, less. Salome had an excellent opportunity to show herself. Perhaps she thought that her potential husband was among the diners. So she wanted to establish herself in her best beauty. And she succeeded. They noticed her. The king, who was her stepfather, tried to repay her. After all, she became his stepdaughter, so he saw an opportunity to gift her. And he was truly generous. Half a kingdom is not enough. Someone will say that he has gone crazy – for one dance. Herodias was worse off. She wasted a great deal. She also impoverished her somewhat naive daughter with her egoistic act. And it was great, after all. Beautiful “tinsel” for unwrapped and showed emptiness.
It would be easy to judge us… Salome is in each of us. We are young (80 years to eternity), beautiful, talented, and inexperienced. Sometimes more, sometimes less. We like to show off because profit is helpful for us. And we can enjoy generosity. And there are always kings who jump on our “honey.” They want to get us. And so they promise us something. They are successful in this – they call us drunk with dry bread. Then, we will also waste more significant offers than “half the kingdom.” The problem is not only in the menu but also in the fact that we are willing to sacrifice anything for the “dry roll.” We are so glad that we even offer the heads of our neighbors. This is the emptiness that convicts us. It would be easy to judge us… but God does not judge us… He wants to forgive us… Do we want His mercy?
Come to the deep: How do I react to the various offers of the world? How long will I be here on Earth, and how long in eternity? Am I paying adequate attention to this fact? Am I thinking about God’s offers?
Tip for you: Let’s try to do something for those worse off than us. But let’s not do it because they are miserable, but because they are people like us. We are equal.
