We have a lot of kids gathered here today, which is wonderful, and I wonder if everyone knows each other already. Let’s introduce ourselves. Now, let’s say I’m friends with this group of kids on my right. If I also become friends with the kids sitting on my left, does that mean I have to stop being friends with the first group of kids over there? Of course not. Friendship grows as it is shared!
I had a friend in kindergarten and first grade, who didn’t know this. So she told me that I could be her friend one week, and then another girl we knew would be her friend another week. We had to take turns being her friend. It was kind of silly, because we all could have been friends together!
Sometimes older brothers and sisters in a family worry when a new baby comes along, because they think that the baby will get more of their parents’ love and they’ll have less. But in reality, parents’ love grows and expands to include all of their children. And this is what the Gospel story is about today. People are worried in a situation that they’ll get less because they had to share so much, when Jesus just wants them to realize that they are all children of God, and to stop their silly argument. And we will be God’s children forever, both now and in heaven.
Thanks be to God for the gifts of friendship and love!
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