JOHN 17: 20-21

“My prayer is not for them alone.  I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.  May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”

TO PONDER

I have always loved this prayer of Jesus.  For me, there is a difference between Jesus being in us, and us being in the Trinity. 

I can relegate Jesus to a corner in my heart, a designated space with boundaries, a time of day for a chat.  I can also live with him fully within me, opening all private doors, inviting me to examine my soul regularly,  aware of community within me.  I suppose most of us are a combo of the two most days, well, I am anyway. 

But to live fully in the awareness that I am in the Trinity?  That I am scooped up and gently held in the arms of Creator Father.   That I am pursued by the outstretched arms of the crucified Christ into relationship.   That I am nurtured and encouraged by the Spirit into community with God, nature, people, even my self?  

So remember:  not one of us here on earth is an insignificant being on this dot of a planet in the universe, we are immensely significant, being pursued and invited into the great connection of being one with God. 

PRAYER: Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit, may we all respond to your invitation to be in you, and to bring others with us as we come home to you.  Amen