It is very easy for us to make up our minds where God is to be found. How often we try to make him fit our ideas, our convenience rather than his loving Truth! In the Gospel today Jesus chides the crowds for their fickleness. He feels like those children who provide music for passers-by. If the music is joyful, they won't dance; if the music is sad, they will not cry. And he applies the image to the way people reacted to John the Baptist and himself. John led a life of great austerity and he was not accepted. Jesus comes socialising with sinners, eating and drinking with them, and they are shocked. But, as Isaiah reminds us today, our true happiness is not in making God's ways fit ours but in our making God's ways our own. It was Paul who was scolded by Jesus for 'kicking against the goad'. Once he submitted entirely to the Way of Jesus, his life was transformed. His love for Jesus became so great that he could not decide which was better: to be alive and working for Jesus or to die and be united with him in eternal happiness. We too will only find true freedom and happiness when the only thing we want is to be in total harmony with God's will in our lives.