Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

Grace to you and peace from God and Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen. Please pray with me. Lord, we are named as your children and we ask that you be with us now. Open our minds and hearts so that your word may be made clearer to us. Help us to hear the message of love, peace, and unity. Amen. The second reading today is familiar to many people and looks at how the body of Christ is made up of individuals, yet still is one body. When we are baptized, we are named as a child of God and welcomed into the body of Christ. We do this as a celebration of the unity we have in Christ and that we are fully welcomed and are part of the body of Christ through no action of our own, but through God’s grace. We don’t question people before they are baptized as to what they will bring to the church, who they are, what plans or goals they have, who they plan on loving, or anything. They are baptized into the body of Christ exactly as they are, a child of God. Since, in our tradition, people are usually baptized as infants,