In today’s first reading, Acts 3: 11-26, Luke shares the
story of the how people responded to the miracle that Jesus performed through
Peter and John when they said to a man crippled from birth and who was begging
for alms, “…in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, rise and walk” (Acts 3: 1-10). He rose and walked for the
first time in his life. People were amazed and “looked so intently at [Peter
and John] as if [they] had made [the crippled man] walk by [their] own power or
piety.”
Jesus is the same now
as then. He makes all things new. He
makes the lame walk, raises the dead to life (the physically dead to eternal
life, the spiritually dead to new faith, the psychologically dead to new ways
of connecting with others and self that brings new life to them emotionally and
psychologically). We see the creative
power of the Triune God at work in winter giving way to spring, in plants “resurrecting”
from the soil, in buds bursting open on trees and bushes. Flowers of a variety
of colors and shapes beautify our environment in myriad of ways, revealing the
beauty, presence and life-giving power of
our God. We see God bringing forth new life in the birth of baby chicks and
birds and baby animals of all kinds. And of course, we also see God’s creative
power at work in the birth of babies being born to families wanting to work
with God in the creation of life among us.
May God be praised, honored, glorified through all of
creation. May you and I be a significant part of that glorification, honoring,
praising and thanking God by our intimacy with Him, with ourselves and with
others in renewing life around us and within us, as the sun renews all of the
plant kingdom this spring!
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