Can you hear your mother calling your name? It sounds beautiful doesn’t it? Even when you hear it in a timber that you know you have done something wrong, there is still a beauty to the way your loved one speaks your name. Even for those of us whos mother has long passed, we can still hear her call our name, and it makes a rush of love flow over me when I think of my mother calling my name.
In our reading Mary saw Jesus and assumed he was the gardener, and even after speaking to him, she did not know who he was, until he called her by name. Image the beautiful tones of Jesus calling you by name…
Every one of us is joined with Jesus this mornign in his resurrection and given new life through the faith that he has given us as a gift. He has called us by name and loves us beyond our wildest imagination.
Go therefore and tell everyone of the wonderful love of the one who calls you by name! Show all the grace that flows freely from the throne of God and the relaitonship they can have. Tell them of the beautiful tones with which he calls your name.
Gracious Risen Savior, guide us to hear you calling our name. Fill us with your Spirit, that we might shine forth your love and grace to all, that those around us will see you and not us and be drawn to you, so they too might hear you call their name. Amen.
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