All Saints Day III — What We Will Be

The Promise Beyond What We Know

Beloved, we are God's children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed.

— 1 John 3:2

All Saints Day IV — Be a Peacemaker

The Family Resemblance of God's Children

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

— Matthew 5:9

Call No One Father

When Respect Becomes Reverence

And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father—the one in heaven.

 — Matthew 23:9

Like a Father With His Children

The Love That Teaches Us to Be Free

As you know, we dealt with each one of you like a father with his children. 

— 1 Thessalonians 2:11

All Saints Day II — When They Became Smaller

The Quiet Deliverance from Fear

I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me out of all my terror. 

— Psalm 34:4

Why Does God Allow It?

When Other People's Choices Become Our Suffering

Because of the wickedness of those who dwell there. 

— Psalm 107:34

Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul? And why are you so disquieted within me?

— Psalm 43:5

All Saints Day I — No One Forgotten

When the Family Tree Ends but the Story Doesn't

After this I, John, looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. 

— Revelation 7:9