Today’s readings bring us hope in this season of Easter and amidst all the challenges that we are facing in our day-to-day lives. It speaks of one thing that will not disappoint and that is the hope we have in Christ Jesus. In the First Reading, we see that even death was not able to destroy what God had planned. We may be walking through a season of hopelessness, a season of feeling like a failure, a season of loss and grief. In all these seasons the Word of God stands true. As said in Ecclesiastes 3, there is a time for everything; a time for birth and a time for death, a time to cry and a time to laugh; but ultimately He alone makes all things beautiful in His time.

We may not understand the season we are in, but we are called to surrender ourselves to the heart of God, and He who has compassion on us, will give us the grace to walk through this season with His light shining in our hearts. Let us become witnesses to the joy of the Risen Lord so that others will see this light and be attracted to Jesus, the source of light and love.

Prayer: Abba Father, give us the grace to surrender our lives to you and to receive a renewed hope to walk through the seasons we are placed in. Amen.