‘Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any group that will have me as a member.’ This is Groucho Marx’s joke, and as with all good jokes, much truth lies within. The truth is that in all important communal efforts, family, work and church, we tend to see everyone else as the problem, and ignore the problem in the mirror. Marx’s barbed humor may be timely wisdom in these post Covid days of the ‘Great Resignation,’ where 38 million people left their jobs last year, and this year resignations remain high. So before anyone else quits their job, perhaps a little self-reflection might be useful. And thankfully, if you are in the Armenian Church, the Lenten Season, and particularly today’s Sunday of the Unjust Steward helps us take a long hard look at who we are and what we are called to be. If this leads you to leave your job and join the great resignation; so be it! But it should lead us all to join the greatest resignation, where we learn to hold loosely to the passing things of this world, in order to follow our Lord and his ancient path to eternal life.
