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Good News Reflections:
Making scripture meaningful to your daily life
by Terry Modica

Since the moment of your conception, even before you looked human, God created you with a special purpose in mind.

Good News Reflection for:

Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist
June 24, 2025

Today’s Prayer:

I praise and bless you, my Lord, because you want to write a new history in my life, due to your great love for me. May the things you work in me be a motive of praise by all of those who, like me, are ardently waiting in You. Amen.

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Today’s Readings:

Isaiah 49:1-6
Ps 139:1b-3, 13-15
Acts 13:22-26
Luke 1:57-66, 80
bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062425-Mass.cfm
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You, too, were wonderfully made!

Do you realize how closely alike you and John the Baptist are? Today’s first reading shows us that God had a special purpose for John the Baptist since before he was born. The Lord did the same for you! Since the moment of your conception, even before you looked human and had a beating heart and a brain that could think, God created you with a special purpose in mind.

To God, you never were just a blob of tissue. He loved you from the very beginning and chose you to help him accomplish his plans. This is true for everyone (which is why abortions are wrong), even though he foreknows who is going to reject him.

Like he did with John the Baptist, God has given you a sharp-edged sword, i.e., the ability to speak the truth. He gave you this gift during your baptism when you received the Holy Spirit.

The Lord is concealing you in the shadow of his arm. No matter how hard your life has been, and no matter how many times you strayed from the Lord, you still belong to him.

Even though you have sometimes toiled in vain and your efforts to do God’s work have seemingly been for nothing, as if you uselessly spent your strength, your reward is with the Lord. He will give you recompense.

No matter how ugly you think you are, no matter if you are too short or too tall or diseased or malformed by a birth defect, you were made glorious in the sight of the Lord, your Creator. The verses in our responsorial Psalm confirm this: You are wonderfully made! Since the moment of your conception, your life has been precious and important.

Whatever you can imagine doing for the Lord, it’s never as much as what God desires for you. It’s “too little” compared to what he knows you can do. He has bigger plans for you, a more important use for your gifts and talents and experiences and training than what you’ve done so far. He will make his light shine ever brighter through you!

As it says of John in Luke 1:80, you, too, are God’s child; growing and becoming strong in spirit. You have experienced the desert of hardships and training, you have suffered and lacked and thirsted and hungered. And all of this is valuable and useful when you follow Jesus into greater service for his kingdom.

Reflect further about this issue with our WordByte: “Why me, Lord?” @ https://wordbytes.org/suffering/why-me-Lord/

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