32nd Friday in Ordinary Time
14 November 2025
The Book of Wisdom tells us today
that creation is supposed to lead us somewhere.
Every sunset.
Every star-filled sky.
Every mountain stream.
Every breeze.
These signs are supposed to point us toward the Source — toward the Creator.
We were never meant to stop at the beauty;
we were meant to go through the beauty
to the One who made it.
Wisdom says we are “foolish” if we become so fascinated by the created world that we forget the One who fashioned it.
Creation is good
— but it’s not God.
Creation is beautiful
— but it’s not the end.
Creation is a sign
— not the destination.
Saint Augustine admitted this failure in himself
— he said he once clung to created beauty
and missed the Creator’s love.
And Wisdom is calling us to avoid that mistake.
It is teaching us how to see the world sacramentally
— how to see God in His works.
Because everything
— absolutely everything —
carries His fingerprints.
That is the doorway into the Gospel.
Jesus recalls the days of Noah and the days of Lot.
Eating, drinking, buying, selling, marrying, planting, building
— and yet entirely unaware of the presence and call of God.
Not because they were doing sinful things…
but because they were doing ordinary things without reference to God.
Jesus is not condemning marriage, cooking, or working.
He is warning us:
you can live your entire life surrounded by God’s signs…
and never go deeper.
You can enjoy all the gifts…
and never meet the Giver.
Two people in the same house can live in completely different spiritual worlds
— one awake, one asleep.
Two working the same job
— one can be worshipping God in the midst of it,
the other drifting through life with no horizon beyond “today.”
This is what Jesus is pressing on.
The same circumstances
— radically different attitudes,
radically different hearts.
Jesus is calling us to be the ones who notice.
To be the ones who trace the stream back to the Source.
To be the ones who don’t settle for creation
— but let creation lead us to the Creator.
In 2002,
Saint John Paul II wrote a poem reflecting on a mountain stream — and he says the rhythm of that stream reveals God’s voice.
But to hear it,
we have to “go up,”
tracing the water back to its beginning
— resisting the urge to drift downstream with everyone else.
That is the Christian life.
We are meant to interpret the world around us.
We are meant to see God in it.
We are meant to wake up those around us who are sleepwalking.
That is what Jesus is telling us when He speaks of people being taken and left.
It is not about God arbitrarily selecting some and rejecting others — it is about readiness.
It is about spiritual attentiveness.
The difference between those who are taken and those left
is not where they were standing
— it was whether they were living with God at the center.
The First Reading says:
“From the greatness and beauty of created things
their author is seen.”
So today — look around.
Not at theory… not at abstraction… but at your real life.
Creation is trying to draw you upward.
Your daily work can become worship.
Your ordinary routine can become prayer.
God has placed signs everywhere.
Creation is not the destination
— it is the invitation.
Don’t stop at the gifts.
Seek the Giver.
Let every good thing — lead you home to Him.