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SUNDAY, MARCH 4
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT

Be-loved, and loving

One of the deepest human spiritual longings is to know ourselves as the beloved of God. Maya Angelou, in her memoir Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now, recalls being asked by her teacher to read a section from a book that ended with the words, “God loves me.” He instructed her to say the passage again and again. Eventually it dawned on her there might be truth in those words. She writes: “I suddenly began to cry at the grandness of it all. I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things. I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything.” This Lent know that God loves you, and ask God to use you to help another know that he or she is beloved.

TODAY’S READINGS: Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Romans 8:31b-34; Mark 9:2-10

“If God is for us, who can be against us? ”


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