03/30/2007

John 10:31-42
31 The Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus replied, ‘I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?’ 33The Jews answered, ‘It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God.’ 34Jesus answered, ‘Is it not written in your law,* “I said, you are gods”? 35If those to whom the word of God came were called “gods”—and the scripture cannot be annulled— 36can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, “I am God’s Son”? 37If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. 38But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand* that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.’ 39Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands.
40 He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. 41Many came to him, and they were saying, ‘John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.’ 42And many believed in him there.

…that the Father is in me and I am in the Father. Jesus offers us the model; God provides us everything necessary—even the Spirit; we need only accept this real life as a gift. We are all sons and daughters, all valued, all capable in our own way if we can hear the call, walk the path, honestly care. It is in us ready to share. Many times there is more in our hearts, minds, spirits than we think. If we can just risk a glimpse of the Father in us, we can be and do better. So as we set our eyes on Holy Week, resolve to see God in the world about us and in every human being. Risk revealing your real nature-- child of God, agent of compassion, soldier of Peace!
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