What joy there is in those words. Our Lord was resurrected so that we, too, might have opportunity after opportunity to be resurrected ourselves. Resurrected from lives of sin, from our short sightedness, from our self-centeredness. Jesus asked Peter three times, "Simon Peter, Do you love me," not out of some deep-seated Divine Insecurity; Jesus offered the question three times so Peter himself might crawl out from under his own three denials of Jesus. So it is with us. Jesus offering us endless chances to turn our denials into good; endless opportunities to answer God's call to us. That we too might claim the power to effect change in this broken and wonderful world.
God has great plans for us.
All the people of the world are God’s children; all of them. As Christians, we must seek and recognize the face of Christ in each one. “Peter, do you love me?" "Then love them.” Jesus said. Love them.
Let it be so, in the name of the resurrected Christ. Alleluia!
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