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Acceptance

14 Monday Dec 2015

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Today’s Reading: Galatians 3:25-29 Version CEV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+3%3A25-29&version=CEV

We all have a natural tendency to reject those who are not like us. We find it easier to reject than to accept those who are physically, culturally, mentally or socially different.

Among the first Christians at Rome there were many differences. They were Jews, Greeks, slaves and free. There was much discrepancy between their customs and their way of thinking. To keep them together, the apostle Paul found a simple solution: He encouraged and urged all of them, with mutual respect

The word “accept” means “consent to receive”. Imagine yourself in the middle of a large crowd. You feel insecure, afraid. Suddenly someone calls you by name, runs to you and gives you a hug. It is precisely what Paul meant by “accepting”.

We all need to feel that acceptance; if not, we are lost. This is essential for all; for husbands and wives; for children, at home and at school. Children, in fact, do everything possible to feel part of a group. It’s terrible to be left aside, totally ignored!

Today we pray to God this way: “O Lord, open our hearts to welcome our brothers and sisters who have been ignored and that need so much our acceptance. Amen”.

Ildefonso Torres

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Receives a Child
Today’s Reading Matthew 18:5 “Whoever receives one child like this in my name, welcomes me.” New International Version

Taking care of children is an exhausting routine that we perform every day; bathe, dress them with clean clothes; feed them; tell them what to do, even if they do it; not leave them for a few seconds because they run up where they should not or run to the middle of the street.

That is why we have thousands of poorly educated, abused and neglected children. Not everyone is willing to sacrifice his life babysitting

The child is helpless and dependent, and although requires much, it corresponds with almost nothing. So the child should be welcomed, accepted, loved and all this without expecting a lot from them.

The truth, however, is that this is true love; the willingness to give of ourselves without expecting anything back. This is how Christ loves us. And it’s that kind of waiver and release what Jesus requires of us, if we want to be his disciples.

We know this because Jesus, when his disciples were arguing about which of them was the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, he took a child and placed it in their midst, saying: “Whoever receives one child like this in my name, welcomes me.”

Ildefonso Torres