
The Gift of Shared Suffering
This family is grateful that together they have learned to lean into the hard and find good even there.
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This family is grateful that together they have learned to lean into the hard and find good even there.

Jesus invites his followers to imitate his act of self-giving in the beautiful image of the grain of wheat which dies to allow new life to grow.

If God can look out for a whole people he can look out for individuals, too. God will provide for us in ways that do us the most good.

Not everyone wants to be well. Too often we become invested in our own weakness, our own sickness. It seems we would rather complain than deal with the responsibility of being healed.

In this week’s Gospel, Jesus uses the example of a grain of wheat to remind us how to live our best life.

God invites us all to live. He will provide everything we need for fruitfulness and security of life.

The virtue of humility reminds us that the ordinary and the everyday is often where God’s gifts shine most brightly.

Francis strenuously denied the suggestions that he was a saint. He kept hidden the marks of the stigmata. He refused to let people attribute miracles to him.

In today’s reading from Isaiah, God promises his people a new beginning. After our cleansing, after the self-gift of Jesus, comes new life.

We see light instead of darkness, and in that light we discover a side of ourselves that we thought we had lost. We look with new eyes on the people around us and see how they, too, are children of God.