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The little ones in school were talking about birthdays. They
asked me my age. Feeling kind-of –youngish, I asked them to guess. A hand
shot up with a loud answer .....a hundred ....truth, indeed in the eyes of
innocence.
Who do you say I am, Jesus asked His friend today. Peter
shot out an answer ...Christ of God. It was impulsive and childlike too. Peter
did not know what he was saying. Faith is mystery indeed, not primarily
about knowledge, but more of heart, feeling, experience, and rather like
love. I can have read all the love books, but ‘loving’ is extra vision and
gift given, not earned. I imagine Jesus coaxing his friends into a deeper
understanding of His Mission and our daily life.
See the farmer sowing seeds. The seed has to enter a
world of darkness before it can emerge into the light of new life. I will
face the darkness, Jesus says, and so will you, but it’s only a passing
through phase. Think of the mother and her baby, in the darkness of the
womb, before emerging into new glorious life ..joy to the world. In life
there is no escape from darkness, but it is surpassed and transformed, with
dawn and sunlight. My Kerry friend, Michael, said that ‘it was a hard
winter, and there were losses in the farming, but the Sun never fails to
shine’. God promises us both Love and Companionship.
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