Sharing some thoughts

  You will probably all have heard some of the wonderful children’s letters to God – I’m a bit sad perhaps but I never tire of hearing things like, ‘Dear God, Did you mean to make giraffes look like that, or was it an accident ?’ or ‘Dear God, I keep waiting for a nice summer day, but it hasn’t come – did you forget ?’ or just one more, ‘Dear God, Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms – it works for me and my brother.’   Asking children questions can be a very dangerous thing because they will generally say exactly what they think, when adults will often skirt around the truth, particularly if it’s painful! Few of us will risk asking what people think of us in case the reply is not what we’d hope for, but Jesus of course had no worries about such things.    In the gospel reading (Matt. 16:13-20), he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am ?’ And the disciples told him that some people were saying he was a reincarnated John the Bapti