"See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are."
1 John 3:1
It may be hard for us to grasp the concept of being a child of God. At our New Year's Day mass, the second reading was Galatians 4:4-7 and verse 7 states, "For you are are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son then also an heir..." So our being a child of God gives us an inheritance, not of money or property, but of life! It surely helps us to wrap our heads around being a child of God if we grew up in a loving, nurturing family. I've said before that my parents were a wonderful combination of loving indulgence and kind, yet firm, discipline. That showed me how being a child of God can give me a good, solid foundation in the world. In today's Living Faith reflection on this reading, Sr. Melannie Svoboda gives a wonderful image of how we can realize the "familyship" of all of us in the family of God. She went to a family reunion that was so large everyone wore name-tags describing their particular branch of the family! She suggested we all have a name-tag that states we are a "child of God." I love the idea of us all going around with name-tags that say simply, "Hello! I am a child of God." Today, we may encounter someone difficult. Let's imagine their name-tag and the fact that they are, too, a "child of God!" Love, heidi
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