Reflection on Sunday's readings

Most, if not all of us, could benefit from some really good news now and then. Our second reading for this Sunday surely provides such great, positive and holy news. When we need to be renewed with a reassuring thought, let us go as often as is helpful to the words that remind us that “we are God’s children now.” Some of us might prefer not to be referred to as children. If so, we recall how Jesus welcomed children, embraced them, and blessed them. We pray that we never outgrow seeing ourselves as child-like, namely, always willing to allow Jesus to give us a loving hug and whisper into our ears that indeed we will always be renewed in the love that God shares so freely and abundantly.