The opening words for today's Gospel passage from John 14 speak so powerfully in the pandemic situation at hand: "Do not let your hearts be troubled."
And that's really true.
While Jesus spoke these words before His tragic death, they take on great power because of His Resurrection. We don't have to be afraid because Jesus rose from the dead and now gives us Life, because He is the Way to the Father, and He is Truth that stands always.
This reality gives us great joy now, for we can rest in the assurance that we have abundance of new Life even now in Him.
Certainly, on this Mothers' Day, we come to know the power of His Love revealed in the ways we share love with our moms, who constantly give us life from the time we first existed.
He is guiding us in this life to meet the needs that arise in this world, like in the situation presented in Acts 6, when the apostles devise a plan to meet the needs of Greek widows, carried out by the Holy Spirit empowering a group of Greeks, the first deacons.
And we who have this reality imparted to us by the power of the Holy Spirit are coming together as a house, built of individual stones, on Christ, the chief cornerstone, that we may live to His praise, because He has brought us from darkness into light. Cooperating with the Holy Spirit, we participate in doing the work of the Father, doing the greater works that Jesus said we would do because He has sent His Spirit to empower us.
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