Saturday August 19, 2017
“Let them be!”
This was Jesus’s response when he found the disciples preventing little children from flocking to him. Do those words ring a bell? In the beginning of creation, God commanded, “Let There Be!” The primordial “Be”!
This “letting be” belongs to God who is infinite freedom and shares it generously with us, human beings. Our God is a God who affirms our being at its very depth and in its most fundamental desire. At its core, our being desires God and the eagerness of the little children to come to Jesus is indicative of the same. We are called to say “yes” to this invitation to “be”; and we are asked not to prevent anyone from saying “yes” to the same call.
“The man who utters this Yes knows that he himself has been affirmed from some quarter: someone has bestowed on him the Yes of being. To be, really to be, is precious” (Hans Urs von Balthasar).
