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Years ago Johnny Carson used to feature a young fellow named Bob every once and a while who was the consummate procrastinator.\u00c2\u00a0 He would put off just about everything till later, and make a joke about it.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a great routine.\u00c2\u00a0 It was funny, but at the same time it often hit home, because all of us procrastinate, all of us put off some important tasks as we go through life.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Herod was such a man.\u00c2\u00a0 Fascinated by reports of both St. John the Baptist and Jesus, Herod wanted to know more.\u00c2\u00a0 The Gospel says of Herod “And he kept trying to see him”.\u00c2\u00a0 So basically he procrastinated- he put it off.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
We can only speculate on the reason.\u00c2\u00a0 Was it because he was too lazy?\u00c2\u00a0 Was it because he thought he was too busy- preoccupied with his important position?\u00c2\u00a0 Or perhaps it was it because he wanted Jesus to come to him, a man of importance, rather than He, Herod, making the first step?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now sometimes we wait to do something important as well.\u00c2\u00a0 And we will use excuses like the ones above.\u00c2\u00a0 When you think about it, the three reasons boil down to this: laziness, arrogance, and pride.\u00c2\u00a0 That sounds kind of harsh, but when you cut away all the words around the excuses, these are what remain.\u00c2\u00a0 The devil knows how to use these human tendencies, and he is active and alive in procrastinators because the easiest of all things to do, is to do nothing at all.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yet, some of the things that we put on the back burner are important-\u00c2\u00a0 resolving problems with those we love; confessing our sins and making restitution; making changes that we know are needed in our lives; and lot’s of other things.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
The bottom line is this.\u00c2\u00a0 The Gospel is not just talking about Herod.\u00c2\u00a0 The Gospel is talking about us.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00c2\u00a0 September 24, 2009 Thursday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time Hag 1: 1-8; Lk 9: 7-9 Dc. Larry Brockman Years ago Johnny Carson used to feature a young fellow named Bob every once and a while who was the consummate procrastinator.\u00c2\u00a0 He would put off just about everything till later, and make a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}