Letters

 

Do you like getting letters? Before email, texting and tweeting, people wrote letters when they had news to share with others. I wrote letters to friends when I was in college, and to family when I was studying in Poland. When I travel, I mail postcards. Writing and sending letters them are important tasks, and I hope one day you will write letters to your family members and friends.

Today, most of the mail we get is junk, but there are letters that were sent to us by someone very special. Someone who loves us dearly has sent love letters to us. Do you know who that Person is? It’s God. God sends us love letters.

Do you know where to find these letters? They are in a book called the Bible. I mention this because every Sunday we take our book and read a portion of all these love letters from God.

Since Easter, we have been reading the love letters from St. John to his friends and church family members. At times, John tells people about God. At other times, he tells people to love God and each other. He even warns people about the devil and evil people who lead them down the wrong path. He writes all these things because he loved his family members and friends almost as much as God loves them.

Do you know what else? God sends those love letters to you too. Maybe your parents or grandparents can read them to you. When you become an adult, you can read them to others and remind them of God’s love for all people.

With that, let us pray. Heavenly Father, from whom all fatherhood in heaven and earth is named: Bless these and all children, and give their parents the spirit of wisdom and love, so that the homes in which they grow up may be to them an image of Your Kingdom, and the care of their parents a likeness of Your love. We pray in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.