The readings used for today's liturgy remind us that we are blessed to have had so many exemplary people precede us in our journey of faith. When the going gets rough, do we stop and turn to those given to us by God as models: first and foremost his Son, Jesus, and then the many women and men of both Old and New Testament history and then the saints whom the Church has put forward for us as models and then those men and women and sometimes even young people --- all of these people who mirror for us the goodness, the love and the care of our God for us in whatever circumstances we may be. Ours is the opportunity to "taste and see" this goodness of the Lord if we but focus, focus, focus on what is outside ourselves during difficult times and even in happy times.
