Soul Food : VERY GOOD!

VERY GOOD

“Amen, amen, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin...So if a son frees you, then you will truly be free.” –John 8:34, 36

Not too long ago, I took a cab home.

Thirty seconds after stepping off the taxi and entering my house, I realized I left my cell phone in the cab. I knew the cab wouldn’t be gone yet because it still had to back out of our narrow street.

So I ran out of my house to catch it. But the cab was backing out in full throttle as though being chased. It didn’t stop.

I called up my own phone – but it was now dead. Someone must have gotten it and turned it off.

A hard question sometimes disturbs my heart: Are humans really good?

But then one day, I found my answer. Francis, my two-year-old smiling boy, climbed behind me and leaned his tiny head on my shoulder. Then he crawled on my lap and sat there like a little king. Content and happy, he rested his head on my chest and sang a made-up song.

With one stroke, the little imp brushed my doubt away. Yes, we’re all made in God’s image. We’re all very good. We just forget how good we are. Bo Sanchez

REFLECTION:

Have you forgotten how good you are?

Father, don’t let the dirt of sin and regret make me forget how great you made me.