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Share your faith – Join our Online Discussion! Build up others with your thoughts on our Sunday meditation. Three questions will be offered for reflection and discussion each week. Please pray through the questions and share your insights or what the Lord spoke to you in the comments area provided. Your words will inspire others in The Word Among Us community and encourage us all.
“Good Shepherd Sunday” is a traditional time for First Communion celebrations. If we are privileged to attend or to remember such an event, it’s easy to recognize as “children of God” those who dress in white, express eager reverence with their bodies, and draw near to the Lord’s table for their first encounter.
Yet this day isn’t the culmination of the journey or a one-time event. Although first communicants are truly children of God, there is more to come. They—and we—are not yet all we will be as we mature as human beings and grow in union with our Savior. One day, John promises, we will see him as he is. And we will be like him!
The journey to that day may involve unanticipated twists and turns. We may wander from the fold, questioning the faith we…
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