how can I return the goodness the Lord has done for me?

We conclude our reflection by entrusting ourselves to the words of St Basil the Great who, in the Homily on Psalm 115, commented on the question and answer contained in the Psalm as follows: “”How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me? The cup of salvation I will take up’. The Psalmist has understood the multitude of gifts he has received from God: from non-existence he has been led into being, he has been formed from the earth and given the ability to reason... he then perceived the economy of salvation to be to the benefit of the human race, acknowledging that the Lord gave himself up to redeem all of us; and he hesitates, searching among all of the goods that belong to him for a gift that might be worthy of the Lord. “How then, shall I make a return to the Lord’? Not sacrifices nor holocausts... but my entire life itself. For this he says: “I will lift up the cup of salvation’, giving the name “cup’ to the suffering of spiritual combat, of resisting sin to the point of death; besides, that is what our Saviour taught us in the Gospel: “Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by’; and again to the Apostles: “Can you drink the cup I shall drink?’, clearly symbolizing the death that he welcomed for the salvation of the world” (PG XXX, 109), thus transforming the sinful world into a redeemed world, into a world of thanksgiving for the life the Lord gives us.