God “gives to everyone life and breath and everything…’In
him we live and move and have our being,’…[f]or we too are his offspring,’” we read in today’s first reading, Acts 17: 15,
22-18:1. In the Gospel, John John 16:
12-15, Jesus tells us that when the Advocate “comes, the
Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth….He will glorify me, because he
will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father
has is mine; for this reason I told y9ou that he will take from what is mine
and declare it to you.”
How awesome is the relationship God the Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit have developed with us. God who made all that is, the heavens and the
earth, and all that is in them, God who created man and woman in His likeness shares
everything with us. The Spirit will bring us to this truth, in fact, to all
truth: the truth about our Creator, the
truth about this universe, the truth about ourselves, the truth about a child
in the womb, the truth about all men and women created equally in the eyes of
God, truth about justice and love and mercy and all that has it origin in God
and taught to us by Jesus. We will come
to realize that God “made from one the whole human race to dwell
on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the
boundaries of their regions, so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope
for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.” For ‘In
him we live and move and have our being,’”!
How do my behaviors/attitudes reveal that I have come to
know that God has given me “life and breath and everything,” that I “live
and move and have[my] being” in God?
Would I treat others differently if I live from the belief that they,
too, have been given “life and breath and everything” from God and that they,
too, “live and move and have [their] being” in God?
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