Daily Bible Reflections - October 29,2012

I love and forgive you

 

Instead be kind and tender-hearted to one another, and forgive one another as God has forgiven you through Christ. – Ephesians 4:32

 

Adela was a full-time housewife and mother, caring for her three young boys. Her husband was doing well in business and life was good. Until she accidentally learned from a friend that her husband had a girlfriend who had given birth to their daughter. Adela’s world came crashing down.

For months, Adela was like a volcano erupting at her husband who was constant  with his apologies and vowed not to do it again. But eventually she had sympathy for the other woman who gave birth to the baby.

She brought up her husband’s daughter and treated her as her own, loving her husband more for giving her this girl. Now, that daughter has a little baby, her granddaughter.

One day, an old woman carrying a baby knocked at Adela’s door. Adela has always had a kind heart for people in need. After feeding the old woman, Adela carried the baby in her arms. She had some affinity with the infant that she couldn’t understand. Then the woman said, “I am leaving the baby with you. She is your husband’s. The woman who gave birth to her has gone and wants nothing to do with the kid. This baby is yours now.” Chelle Crisanto (ellehcmaria@yahoo.com)

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REFLECTION:

Let us grab the opportunity to show love and not anger, compassion not distrust, kindness not harshness.

 

Make me slow to anger, Lord. Teach me to humble myself before men, to love the sinner and hate the sin.

 

St. Narcissus of Jerusalem, pray for us.