I am a person who finds it difficult to keep a secret, specially if it is good news. My body language easily betrays me and I would itch all over to proclaim the joy inside me or I feel I would burst. I want others to share the joy. If it is something inspiring, I want others to be inspired too. If it is useful information, I want others to benefit from it. And when it is bad or sad news, I would still want to share it, kindly and tenderly, as though I would be protecting others from the pain and the ache by sharing them the news.
Aside from news, I also want to share my friends. I want all my friends to know all my other friends. I am so proud and happy about my friends, I want the rest of the world to know about them. I enjoy telling or hearing stories about my friends more than stories about myself. I love to tell others the good news about them. They have brought so much goodness and love in my life, I want the whole world to know. And the paradox is that the more I share friends, the more of them I have. In most material things, what we share we lose.
Yes, there is really a lot of goodness and love around me; there should not be any time anymore to deal in the bad and negative things. This is not to say there are no bad things or negative events in my life. Rather, I should overcome evil with good, hatred and anger with love, jealousy and envy with generosity, tears and fears with laughter and joy. Yes, when I do these, I proclaim the good news of the Kingdom!
Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.’
Matthew 9:35-10:1, 6-8