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Remain in My Love
Being chosen for a special assignment can do wonders
for our self-image. In today’s gospel we hear Christ tell us that “...I chose you and appointed you to go and bear
fruit that will remain.” God’s way of doing things is a little different
than the way things work in this world. Take Major League football or baseball
draft choices. All the teams are vying for the best players to augment their
teams. They need to have backup players who can step in and fill the position when
a player gets injured or is having a bad game. That’s good strategy and essential
for major league sports. It’s just not the way that God does things.
You see, in God’s plan every one of us had a role to
play, specific work that is unique to us, something that only we can do. If we
don’t do the work we are appointed, it doesn’t get done. So, people go hungry,
remain lonely and isolated, life if fear and hopelessness, the good news
doesn’t get spread… Only we can
give voice to how God is working in our life. God has made us so unique that he doesn’t
have a backup player ready to take our
place to carry out the life-long work he has assigned specifically to us to
accomplish.
Understanding that we all have a role to play in
bringing about God’s plan helps us to realize just how much God loves us and lets
us see that he is there every step of the way to help us succeed. We are in
every sense of the word God’s “friends” because
he shares his plans with us and gives us the resources we need to accomplish
the mission he calls us to do. The secret to success is “to remain in my love” he reminds us today.
The Feast of Easter which lasts from Easter Sunday
to Pentecost, a period of fifty days or seven weeks, is a time to renew our
hearts and minds and fine tune our lives so that we can experience that “complete joy” that only God can give to
us. The joy that comes from God is a joy that is also unique to us and to our
circumstances, tailor made for us, just as the mission that comes from God is
strictly ours. May these last couple of weeks of Easter help us to know what
God is asking of us and may we experience the joy that comes with being chosen
by him to be his “First round draft pick”.
Happy Easter!!
Alleluia!!
Deacon Tom
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