Life is like a movement that has changes.
It is like a river that flows down to the sea.
There are twists and turns, shallow waters and deep ends.
So it is with the Church. The Church also needs to be moving and changing.
The 1st reading recorded one major and critical change in the life of the early Church.
A bitter persecution started against the Church and everyone except the apostles fled to the country districts.
Although the early Christians were fleeing from the persecution, that can also be seen as the Church moving out to spread the Good News.
It can also be seen that although the persecution was bitter, God turned it into a changing growth for the Church.
In the gospel, Jesus said that it is the Father’s will that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life.
Let us see all movement and change as God’s will and that we will grow, and like the river, we will flow with the Spirit towards God.