Friday, January 25, 2002
Friday, January 25, 2002
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
For instance, here are Virginia's thoughts on the sacraments:
"When you are little and ugly somebody carries you in church on a pillow, and you come out a
child of God and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven. They pour water on your head and
that's a sacrament."
I like that! "When you are little and ugly somebody carries you in church on a pillow, and you
come out a child of God and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven . . ." That says it all,
doesn't it? The sacraments are a sign that we are children of God.
(Matthew 28:19
NRSV)
Back in 1904, a ten-year-old girl named Virginia Cary Hudson wrote a series of essays for
school. The essays reflect her own childishly clever take on the world, and especially on
religious life in her small Southern town.
"Sacraments are what you do in Church. What you do at home is something else. Cooking
and sewing and running the . . . sweeper and eating and sleeping and praying and scrubbing
yourself are not sacraments.
Lord Jesus, never let me forget that I am a child of God through your sacraments. Amen.
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