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Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

Today's Gospel: Luke 20:27-40

 

Jesus challenges the people’s understanding of God in today’s reading. Sadducees question Him about the resurrection and how marriage will be treated at the end of time. To my ear, Jesus’ response calls to mind a verse from 1 Corinthians: “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him.”

My pastor often emphasizes this verse when it comes into the Mass cycle, and so it has become all the more powerful for me. Truly, what awaits the faithful is beyond anything we can imagine. Heaven isn’t something we can adequately express or illustrate in human or earthly terms. God is bigger than that. His love is bigger than that. His mercy is bigger than that.

To think of Heaven or to think of God in terms of our world limits these beautiful realities. And so, when I read Jesus’ reply in this passage—"he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive”—I see that I need to ask myself where I am limiting God in my life. Of what do I believe Him to be incapable? What in my life seems to be either too big or too small to concern the Lord who loves me this much? How can I come alive in His love?

Today, I invite you to reconsider the boundaries you place on the Lord and His love for you. Expand them. Release them, so that the Holy Spirit can breathe into the tough spots of your day, and so that ultimately you can be counted among “the children of God . . . the ones who will rise.”

 

Ponder:


What puts limitations on your perception of God’s love for you?

 

Pray:


Lord, thank You for Your expansive and everlasting love. Help me to live this love in my thoughts, words, and deeds today. Amen.


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