Friday, 12/19/14
The Bible has many stories of aged
women to whom God gave a child after it was physically impossible for her to
bear one. Today we have the story of Samson’s aged mother, as well there was
Jacob’s mother Sarah, and Samuel’s mother Hannah. Through those stories the
Bible is telling us that none of us owes existence to just natural intercourse.
God has fashioned each of us.
There is a story I tell over and
over about how each of us is special. Please put up with me telling my story
again.
Twenty-five years ago a sixth grade
girl raised her hand, asking, “If we are all made in God’s image, how come some
people are left handed?
Within her question there was a
deeper question in hiding. Namely, “If we are all so different from one
another, how can we all be created in God’s image?”
That question kept coming back to
me, then one night a possible answer popped into my head. It occurred to me
that God in his greatness could be like a diamond with millions of facets;
and each of us is created with a potential of mirroring a different one of
those facets.
At birth we are not recognizable as
miroring God. We are like rough un–cut stones that must be polished over and
over before each can be like God in a unique way.
The Second Vatican Council had a
special document on Christian education. In essence it said that the purpose of
Christian education is that of helping each individual in developing his or her
unique personality.
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