Reflection on Sunday's readings

Our second reading for this Sunday includes these words “if we live, we live for the Lord…we are the Lord’s.” These words are hopefully reassuring as we continue our unique walk through COVID-19, a broken economy, strife in the streets, as well as concerns about the upcoming national election. Through it all, we renew our faith and feel consoled that our lives are a gift to ourselves and hopefully gifts to many others. We do our best to relate with one another as God’s most holy and sacred beings. We have great intrinsic value that we pray we will give expression to. Doing so will hopefully connect us with each other as we find every way possible to join together. Our goal, in collaboration with God, is to pray that our example will encourage others who are not so sure or not sure at all of their precious identity to come to know themselves more assuredly as God’s cherished delight.