Today’s first reading,
Is. 49:8-11, was written during the Babylonian exile. People wondered whether
God had forgotten them. Through the
prophet Isaiah, God replies: “Can a mother forget her infant, be without
tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never
forget you.”
You and I, all of
creation, have come forth from the womb of God, planted by God, formed by God,
taken shape humanly in our mother’s womb by God’s design. No mother or father forgets the child God created with the father’s sperm
and the mother’s egg. And, by no means,
does God forget the Masterpiece He created after His own image and likeness in
cooperation with the parents He had chosen.
Ponder how much a child
resembles its biological parents. Then reflect upon how every person in his/her
divine DNA resembles God. That
resemblance, through grace, radiates over time in those who nurture their
spiritual selves. How? By reading, reflecting upon and giving expression to the
challenges the O.T. prophets and Jesus put forth in the Scriptures; by getting
in touch with the truths in today’s responsorial psalm, Psalm 145, and that
reveal themselves to those who live a
reflective life, seeking God within the circumstances of their lives, that God “is gracious and merciful,…good to
all and compassionate toward all his works….lifts up all who are falling, and
raises up all who are down.” Yes, by discovering
over and over again that the God who brought you into existence to carry out
His will, to fulfill the purpose for which He brought you into existence, “is
just in all His ways and holy in all his works” (Psalm 145).
May you discover a smidgen of that truth today
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