Whose Child Are You?
On this All Saints Day, I remember Servant of God
Augustus Tolton, whose burial site I visited last July.* His parents were slaves in Missouri. After the death of her husband, his mom
escaped slavery with her children. They
ended up in Quincy Illinois. Augustus
became the first black priest in the USA. It wasn't easy. He suffered prejudice until the day he died.
Today’s second reading is: 1 John 3:1-3. Verse 1 is: “See what love the Father
has…that we may be called children of God.”
What does it mean to be God’s child?
Augustus took after his parents because he had the faith and
spunk they had. With those qualities he became
a priest in the face of great odds. But
he was God’s child too. He inherited God’s quality of righteousness in the face
of ongoing rejection.
How do you take after your parents? I look like my dad and I enjoy traveling as
much as my dad did. And I have my mom’s tender heart and I’m also ‘careful with
a dollar’. (My friends sometimes call me
‘cheap’. Thanks mom!!J)
As God’s child, how do you take after God? I have a gift of
creativity and sometimes I can read hearts too. I think those things come from
God.
Take time to think about being both God’s child and your
parents’ child.
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