For the Love of Us All

WITNESS

2-8-13

A REMINDER OF WHO WE ARE

Sometimes

We need not be instructed

So much

As reminded

As to who we are

We need to be

CONSTANTLY reminded

That we are

CHILDREN OF GOD

“Yet to all

Who received him

To those

Who believed in his name

He gave the right

To become children of God-

Children born

Not of natural descent

-nor of human decision

Or a husband’s will

BUT BORN OF GOD”                                         1 Luke:12-13

We need

To hear again and again

That we are

CHILDREN OF GOD

That Christ

Gave his body-soul-and spirit

For ALL of us

In the Epistle of Saint Paul

We hear the term-

“IN CHRIST”-155 times

“So “in Christ” all will be made alive”                 1 Corinthians 15:22

Christ didn’t live and die for the Jewish faith

For the Catholic faith

For the Christian faith

BUT FOR ALL

“These are a shadow

Of the things

That were to come

The reality-however

Is found IN CHRIST”                                             Colossians 2:17

And on and on and on

Truly Children of God

IN CHRIST

Life-by definition-must be lived

And the reality is

That God is in each of us

That God’s life is in us

And that God is our FATHER

The reality is

That God is MADLY in love with you

That he is living in you

And he loves you

“Like there is no one else”

He gives us his heart

And he gives us a home

He prepares a place

For us to come and live with him

At the end of our lives

                   HEAVEN

A place

Where we can

Live in perfect happiness

And in eternal communion with HIM

“Their mind is on earthly things

But our citizenship is in heaven”                                       Philippians 3:19-20

We are heirs

Truly heirs

To the Kingdom of God

There once was a nurse

Who married a common man

During the war

After the war

She found out

He was Lord of the manor

With servants

And endless wealth

And she cried

And she cried

TEARS OF JOY

“Why didn’t you tell me?” she said

“I wanted you to love me for myself,” he responded

And that

Is how we will be

When we-CHILDREN OF GOD

Enter our home with our Father

“The spirit himself

Testifies that we are God’s children”                                         Romans 8:16

Now if we are God’s children

Then we are his heirs

Heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ

And if indeed we share in his sufferings

We will ALSO SHARE in his glory

Dear Lord-WE YOUR CHILDREN

Pray that your light

Will be seen in us

Robert P. Wallman

9-20-12

Ps        *Inspired by the teaching of Father Leo Clifford

Ps       WITNESS        2-8-13