That's the most interesting thing to so many people about
children, the promise of what will be. I hear people who think they're well
intentioned say, oh, the children are the future of the church. No, they're the
present of the church. They're not the future. They're here right now. They're
not our future. They're the present. But we have this tendency to look at
everything as what could be, or might be, or will be, when right here and now these
people are blessing us. The people that we love who have died that we now call
Saints. Did they walk around on Earth acting like what we would consider Saints
acting like then?
Be honest, we love them in their death. When they were alive,
were they perfect? That's not how sainthood works. It's not about perfection.
It's about responding to the love that God has placed within you and sharing
that love with the world around you, however imperfectly you can. However
imperfect you are, we recognize our sainthood.
Every single one of us. We proclaim it. Not as saying we're
all good, but as saying, we are all, every single one of us loved. Snd we are
set apart in this world to share and spread that love to help it grow, to
participate with God in the reconciliation of this world.
What would it look like if we saw these ones around us as
not as what they will be, but what as they are right now, how they bless us
currently?
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