Our Gospel lesson for today suggests that God has changed everything. Through Jesus, through his birth, his life, his teaching, and through his dying and rising to new life, God has changed everything.
Jesus says it this way, “I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself” (Jn. 12:32). It’s a message of hope, that God is working in this world to make everything new. It’s a bold declaration about the power of God’s love changing everything and everyone.
If we want to experience the healing life God offers in body, mind, and spirit, the only way to start the journey is to recognize that we can’t do this entirely for ourselves. We have to take the risk of faith to entrust our lives to the care of a loving God to make the changes the new life calls us to make.
