I want to talk about our kids. Because, I don't know about you, but I am feeling stuck about what to do. This human web should not be a trap of darkness, but rather it should embrace and hold up the lives in its embrace, that they may shine as a light in the dark. The subject of kids in this society is infinitely broad and complicated. It may help us to get specific.
Real losers are invisible.
Something different is expressing itself these days, but if we are truthful, we must admit that youth in some of our American populations have been denied our embrace for many generations. It feels a bit incongruous to be talking like this on this beautiful summer day with vacations still lingering. So let me bring this subject overtly into theological conversation. Actually, we have been talking about theology all along, but now we open it up to the possibility of light, the possibility of energizing the human web into the lustrous existence for which it was created. When St. Paul talks about God, as he does in the Letter to the Romans we heard this morning, always Paul is talking about grace, and how it is grace that transforms.