Moving Forward - 1 February 2025

SATURDAY, February 1, Brigid of Kildare

Galatians 3:28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male or female; all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

It’s hard to deal with the discomfort of difference, because we are loving people who don’t want to do or say the wrong thing. We don’t want to hurt or offend. That’s exactly why we describe the openness and generosity of spirit of our children by saying things like, “They don’t see the difference. They just see people.”

But the wonderful thing is that children do see difference. They see all of it, and they are honest about it; these beautiful and God-given differences are the vast array of us making up the image of God. And in the purity of their loving like God, most children would never consider using those differences to make comparative determinations of a person’s innate worth. Children see human beings as equal, not as the same.

That is the beautiful regard I hear in this verse. It’s the beautiful regard of God’s love. It’s the beautiful regard that we are called to have for one another with the help of the Holy Spirit.

MOVING FORWARD: How can we have eyes like children and see all human beings as equal?

PRAY for the Diocese of Lomega (South Sudan)

Ps 55 * 138, 139:1-17(18-23) | Isaiah 51:1-8 | Galatians 3:23-29 | Mark 7:1-23

(Source: Forward Day by Day Movement)