There is a Jewish proverb, “God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers.”  A little boy complained of pain "all over," so his concerned mom took him to the pediatrician.

The Doctor asked, "So where does it hurt?"  "It hurts all over," the boy said.  "What do you mean, all over?" 

The boy touched his knee with his index finger and cried, "Ow, that hurts!" 

Then he touched he left cheek and cried, "And that hurts, too, Doctor!"  

Then he touched his ear, tears running down his cheek, "Even that hurts!" 

The doctor looked him over and said "Son, you have a broken finger."

Christ comes to change our perspectives on life and how to live our lives, on the decisions we make, on the things we value and seek and on the way we deal with one another.  [Connections 01/17/2010]

Many years ago, when Johnny Carson hosted the Tonight show he interviewed an eight-year-old boy from West Virginia, who had rescued two friends in a coalmine.  As Johnny interviewed the boy it became apparent that the youngster was a Christian.  Johnny asked him if he attended Sunday school; the boy answered yes.  Johnny then asked what he had recently learned in Sunday school.

 

“Last week we learned that Jesus went to a wedding and turned water into wine.”  Johnny asked, “What did you learn from that story?”  “If you are going to have a wedding invite Jesus!”   

Following that little boy’s advice, we should invite JESUS to our weddings; really into our lives. 

Fr. Matt Malone, S.J. wrote, “While the real presence in the Eucharist is the presence of God in Christ par excellence, God’s presence is not restricted to the Eucharist.  ‘The world is charged with the grandeur of God’, the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote.”  [America Magazine, 11/11/19]

May you live in the radiance of God today and every day.

May God Be Praised!