This Gospel makes me think about what happens every year around Christmas time. You see, I am the uncle of 10 nieces and nephews. 10 nieces and nephews. And I try to be very fair to my 10 nieces and nephews. And I think I am fair and just and generous to my 10 nieces and nephews. However, you see, two of them are my godchildren. Two of them, uh, both girls. Two of them are my godchildren. So, don’t you know that at Christmas time they get a little something extra? And it’s really hard to explain to the other eight nieces and nephews when two of them get a little bit more. All I can say is that’s the way it is. They’re my godaughters. And so yeah, at Christmas they get a little something extra. You know, um we we hear that we hear about God’s profound generosity in the Gospel. In the Gospel for today, we remember very powerfully that God wants to bless us abundantly. God wants us really to receive in abundance in many ways in our lives. We we get that message from the parable that Jesus offers us for today. But I think there’s another message as well, and this has to go with the first people who received um their wages last and were measuring up against the last people who got the same as they did, working all day. And and I want to sometimes say this. I want to sometimes say this to those first workers who got their pay last. I want to say, stop comparing yourself. Stop comparing God’s generosity. Stop comparing how God wants to be abundant in many different ways. You see, God’s ways are beyond our ways. We heard that, Colleen. God’s thoughts are above our thoughts. We heard that, Colleen. You know, we, you know, God’s way of being abundant is beyond us. And so, let’s not spend a lot of time like my nieces and nephews. Let’s not spend a lot of time comparing with each other about how God blesses us abundantly because God blesses every single one of us in different ways, very different ways. Some with physical abundance, some with intellectual abundance, some with emotional abundance, and some with spiritual abundance. And let’s not get too caught up with how God has blessed each one of us, but rather spend a lot of time thanking God for all the gifts that each one of us has received so abundantly. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what country we came from or what job we have or or or what gender we are. Rather, we count the blessings that God has offered us and we get down on our knees and we thank God for those blessings every day. Uh you know the saying goes that you should count your blessings, not count your brothers blessings and compare the two. Count your blessings that God through Jesus and the Holy Spirit have so abundantly bestowed upon us. Count your blessings. God’s ways are not our ways. God’s thoughts are not our thoughts.