Daily Reflection

The Hebrew scriptures are, from start to finish, a book “from” and “for” the Jewish people. Nevertheless, there is a deeply universalistic ethos that flows through much of the Hebrew scriptures: a vision of—and a hope oriented toward—a future in which the God this people have come to know and to serve and to love will have definitively called all peoples and all nations to know and to serve and to love God. With the good news of Easter, that future erupts amid our world: even here, even now, the considerable evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. All the families! All the nations! In deep, abiding harmony! May it be so!