Wednesday May 3, 2023

“The truth to embrace is that God the Father is everything we’ve always needed from a Father — and more.”

Good News Reflection for:

Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles
May 3, 2023

Today’s Prayer:

Heal me, Lord, and deliver me from those distractions that keep me from seeking You and receiving You as my God, my King, and my Savior. Amen.

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Today’s Readings:

1 Corinthians 15:1-8
Ps 19:2-5
John 14:6-14
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The Jesus Gap

Think of any relationship you have that’s not working out the way you wish it would. Hey, if you’ve known anyone well enough to discover what you don’t like about each other, you’ve probably experienced an impasse. Either you’ve politely stopped talking about it or else you’ve got an ongoing, unresolved argument. In marriage, I call this the Lover’s Gap. In any relationship, it can be called the Jesus Gap.

Why? Because Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, as we hear in today’s Gospel reading. This is the space between where the relationship is now and where we want it to be — where, in our heart, we believe it’s capable of going. This in-between space looks dark and wide, because we can’t see how to get from here to there. Only God knows how.

Jesus is the way between here and there.

It’s the same in our relationship with God. “No one comes to the Father except through me,” Jesus says. Most of us have a Jesus Gap between us and the Father, because our idea of his Fatherhood has been imperfectly shaped by the fatherhood (parenthood) modeled by imperfect people.

Jesus is the truth. The truth to embrace is that God the Father is everything we’ve always needed from a Father — and more. And as for the gap in our human relationships, the truth is that Jesus will reveal the way to reconnect. Forward movement is made by persistent, consistent effort to get past every impasse, one step at a time. One conscious, determined step at a time. With Jesus.

And as we do this, a miracle is revealed. The journey is a blessing. We discover that gaps in human relationships are okay, because Jesus fills those gaps with himself.

To reflect more on this subject, watch our video, “Defeating Satan’s Biggest Strategy” @ https://gnm-media.org/defeating-satans-biggest-strategy/.

© 2023 by Terry A. Modica

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