SATURDAY, March 19

Luke 2:41-52. When his parents saw him they were astonished.

“Just yesterday he was a child, hardly out of diapers, and here he is instructing the teachers in the temple,” Joseph and Mary must have said to each other. “When did that happen?”

I’ve been there, too. I recently attended a lecture delivered by my youngest child, the one my wife and I thought might never grow up, and he was informed, relaxed, entertaining, quick to respond to questions—in short, thoroughly competent. We concluded we’d have to begin treating him differently. Maybe we should have been doing that all along. It’s gratifying to witness one’s children come of age.

But of course it doesn’t always happen that way. I know other parents—good parents beyond doubt—whose children made tragic choices or lost their way and never found the way back. And I know parents whose children will never come of age because their lives were cut short by disease or freakish accidents.

There’s a question begging for an answer here, but I don’t know the answer. The only thing I know is that God had a Son once and had to watch him tortured and killed. So some of us have it easier than God, but nobody has it harder than God.

PRAY for the Diocese of Mityana (Uganda)

Ps 89:1-29 or 89:1-4, 26-29; 2 Samuel 7:4, 8-16; Romans 4:13-18

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