How many times a day do you stop to say, “Thank You”? How often do you express your thanks, especially to God, your Creator? For your alarm clock…thank you God! For gainful employment…thank you God! Maybe you are blessed to raise your children and not work outside the home…thank you God! For a cup of coffee…thank you God! When it is someone’s birthday, do you thank God for the gift of this person’s life…THANK YOU GOD!
God created us in His divine image, male and female He created us. (Genesis 1:27) This means He made each of us good, in fact very good, both body and soul. It means He didn’t want us to be alone, so He gave us one another for loving relationships. He created Male and Female to complement each other. God created you OUT of His love for you. God created you FOR love from others. And God created you TO love others. Our lives are to be a gift of love to one another. God created us, with our bodies, to make visible the seemingly invisible love of God. “The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible; the spiritual and the divine. It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it.” (Theology of the Body 19:4) Let that settle in your heart, YOU were created specifically to be a visible reality to others in our world of the mystery of our God and to be a sign of it…Thank you God!
God created us in His divine image, male and female He created us. (Still from Genesis 1:27) God is perfect and everything He does is perfect. In the Catechism of the Catholic Church it says, “The divine image is present in everyone. It shines forth in the communion of persons, in the likeness of the unity of the divine persons among themselves.” (CCC 1702) You and every person you know are made in God’s image and so reflect some aspect of God to the world. Human persons most clearly reflect God in our relationships. Our relationship with God, with ourselves, with one another, and with creation.
Take time to say, “Thank You God!” for your relationships…if they are not loving relationships, ask God how you can make them more loving. Thank God for helping you as you mend your relationships with Him, with yourself, with others and with creation. Thank God for His Mercy and for creating you, creating you VERY GOOD…THANK YOU GOD!