1 John 4:7-10 / Mark 6:34-44
We are a week into the new year and just how are things turning out and getting along?
All those well wishes of a happy new year seem to have faded off as we trudge into the first week of the new year.
Even further away are all the Christmas greetings of peace and joy.
Yes, it seems that we have gotten back to life and to reality.
As we look at the challenges ahead and wonder what more bad news are going to come, the 1st reading brings us back to what we need to remember and what we need to do.
It says: let us love one another since love comes from God, and every one who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
We need to be reminded of that and we also need to remember what we celebrated at Christmas.
God's love was revealed when God sent into the world His only Son, so that we can have life through Him.
And Jesus showed what life and love is about as He fed those five thousand in the gospel.
To live is to love, and it is love that will give life to the world, and it is love that will feed the hunger of the world.
Let us be alive with God's love as we get on with life and with reality.