The Gospel of the Day – 2016.05.01
Do Not Be Afraid
Jesus
said to his disciples:
‘If
anyone loves me he will keep my word,
and
my Father will love him,
and
we shall come to him and make our home with him.
Those
who do not love me do not keep my words.
And
my word is not my own:
it
is the word of the one who sent me.
I
have said these things to you while still with you;
but
the Advocate, the Holy Spirit,
whom
the Father will send in my name,
will
teach you everything
and
remind you of all I have said to you.
Peace
I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you,
a
peace the world cannot give,
this
is my gift to you.
Do
not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
You
heard me say: I am going away, and shall return.
If
you loved me you would have been glad to know that I am going to the Father,
for
the Father is greater than I.
I
have told you this now before it happens,
so that when it does
happen you may believe.’
(NJB)
We
Are One
God, the creator of the universe,
God is present in all of God’s children, and where God is present God is
present fully.
There is no division in
the divine. The divine is inclusive of all reality, of every living being that
is it. No-one is excluded.
Every person who ever
was, who is, who will ever be, everyone is present in the divine, as such they
are present within each of us, for each of us carries the divine with ourselves.
Jesus was the son of God,
as each of us is a child of God; a son or daughter.
Love one another, as God
loves you.
Do not be afraid, life on
Earth is merely a passage to another world, it is the unfolding a mystery,
beyond which we will all see clearly.
Listen to your sister, to
your brother, they have something important to say. Each one of us has the
potential to speak for God, to be God’s prophet, to be the advocate of Christ,
and be mindful for within that potential is also the potential to fail.
Everything, and everyone,
returns to the creator, in so doing we come to the understanding that we never
left.
6th
Sunday of Easter
