Ponder This

A hunger for wholeness – a hunger every person experiences at a deep level, but feeds with any number of substitutes that not only give just momentary satisfaction, but block us from seeing others whose very lives are their only own stories of seeking to be the person God made them to be.  We have a model and an invitation; Jesus saw people as they really were.  He saw their hungers, their needs, their worth regardless of their circumstances.  Jesus sees us the same way – valuable, worthy, loveable.  And he gives us an invitation.  “Come unto me all you who labor and I will give you rest” - rest from the anxieties that come from living apart from God, the God who made us whole and invites us back into that union, a union that unites us with our own worth, with the worth of others, and with our maker.  

From Val Neeley, inspired by the June 12th homily of the Reverend Janis Hansen