"If God is for us, who can be against us?"
One of the deepest human spiritual longings is to know ourselves as the beloved of God.
Maya Angelou, in her memoir 'Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now' recalls being asked by her teacher to read a section from a book that ended with the words 'God loves me.' He instructed her to say the passage again and again.
Eventually it dawned on her that there just might be truth on those words. She writes: 'I suddenly began to cry at the grandness of it all. I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things. I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything.'
As we beging htis second week of Lent, let us know that God does indeed love us. And let us ask God to use us to help someone else also know that he or she is beloved, too. For it will be in this way that we can help build the Father's Kingdom of true and lasting peace.
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