The Relationship: Connecting and Radiating

WORD 2day: Thursday, 3rd week in Ordinary time

January 30, 2025 - Hebrew 10: 19-25; Mark 4: 21-25

The relationship that God has promised us in and through the Covenant, is not something that changes, it is something that remains forever - for the One who made this covenant is faithful. That does not mean it is static - the same all the time! It is dynamic and ever on the move. That is why it can be attributed with these two qualities that the Word today presents to us: connecting and radiating. 

God's relationship with us does not position us in a safe and cosy corner where we remain forever, contemplating and conserving our own selfcentered happiness. It is just the opposite - God's relationship pushes us onward, it pushes us out of ourselves, it makes us reach out, go forth. That is why the Christ comes to us, the Word comes to us, reaching out to us and becoming that curtain through which we can reach God... the unreachable summit. Christ connected, Christ connects... me and the One who loved me into existence and continues to love me,... me and my brothers and sisters, all of whom are children of that same God whose relationship has given me the grace of salvation. We need to connect to each other, we cannot remain aloof or unconcerned about each other! 

God's relationship with us, in connecting us to Godself, and to each other, makes us radiate that joy, that bliss, that presence of God that has to be felt by everyone around. Like the light that burns, shines and radiates, we are called to give (burn), inspire (shine) and unite (radiate) everyone in the love of God, in that relationship that gives us our sense and purpose in life. God's relationship radiates from within us and reaches out to the other - making God present everywhere. The more we give, the more we shine and the more we shine, the more we connect - that is manifestation of the relationship that we have in the love of God.