In today's responsorial psalm, Psalm 149, we make the following proclamation: "The Lord takes delight in his people." I invite you and me to rephrase that to say: "The Lord takes delight in me." When you are awed by the sunrise or sunset, think of God gazing at you with awe as well. When you are overcome with an intense sense of gratitude for your son or daughter or the new child that you have just brought home from the hospital following his/her birth, think of God being filled with intense gratitude for you. Yes, God delights in you day and night!
In our darkest moments, you and I might totally disagree that God could ever "delight" in us. We might deeply deny this possibility when we are filled with a sense of shame and guilt, when we may have just exploded in anger or made an assumption about someone and that assumption is proven totally untrue, or at moments when we may have failed to defend another person when such is being bullied or when we join a "gossip party".
However, God, I believe, always sees us as redeemed by His Son, that is, clothed with a robe of salvation, made righteous by His Son's sufferings, death and resurrection (cf Isaiah 61: 10). About you or anyone else, God says to us: "My thoughts are not your thoughts" (Is 58: 8-9).
We always need to be reminded of God's being so much higher and loving than we. Thanks, Sister
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