March 26, 2025 // Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent

Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s First Reading: Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9

Reflect on the Word // 

My parents were rock-and-roll hippies in the years before I was born. They hitchhiked and lived in a commune and my dad played drums for a band that traveled with the Beach Boys and Sam the Sham and a whole host of others. And then, they met Jesus. And everything changed. Within a few months, my dad became Catholic and my mom returned to the faith of her youth. They started living with Jesus at the center, seeking truth and peace that only comes from Him. 

I don’t have memories of my parents B.C. I was six months old when their conversion occurred. Moses speaks in the First Reading about not forgetting “the things which your own eyes have seen” (Deuteronomy 4:9). Like my parents, I want to remember their story, for they did not let their conversion “slip from [their] memory as long as [they] lived” (see Deuteronomy 4:9). I remember  hearing their stories as I grew up, stories of who they were before their faith became important to them and what it meant to drop everything to follow Jesus. It meant something to me, because my parents shared how God had transformed them. They never forgot who they were before and what it meant to be set free. They were always great people, but God made life even better. 

Today’s Scripture reminds us to share our own transformation—to not forget the things we have seen. We need to share them with our children, and with our “children’s children” (Deuteronomy 4:9) and with those around us.  Do not forget these things that you have seen with your own eyes. Do not let them slip from your memory. We were one way and now we are another, and the Person in the middle was Jesus.

Relate to the Lord // Call to mind your witness. What has God done for you? What prayers has He answered? What areas has He healed? Where have you been set free?