Bother in Love

I tell you most solemnly, you will be weeping and wailing while the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.
Jn.16:20

Jesus prepares his disciples for the trauma of his forthcoming death. The Cross will not be the end of his story, nor their anguish the end of theirs. 

The world wanted Jesus removed and rejoiced when it thought that had happened. Nothing has changed. Christians are an anathema because we challenge, or at least we should be challenging, the world's view on life. What we do inside the walls of our churches doesn't bother the world. It's when we bust out into the streets that we become a bother. 

Lord, give me courage to be a thorn in the side, a bother to the world today and help me bother in love.
Saint Peter, please pray for me.