Mother

"Your mother and brothers outside are looking for you," Mark 3:32.

So reported the people crowded inside the house. How did they know? mainly because his mother and brothers were outside calling for him. For Jesus. But, instead of going outside, Jesus asks the folks inside: Who is my mother and my brothers? He gazes intensely around the room at the men and women encircled - he says: See? My mother and my brothers! Whoever, any person, anybody at all, whosoever does the will of God - this one, this person, this whosoever, this is my brother, this is my sister, this is my mother. And with that line, he declared whatever our language, whatever our nationality, whatever our race, whatever our gender, whatever our culture, whatever our clan, whatever our family, whatever our whatever ... he declared us his brothers and sisters and mothers. Who do the will of God. Sky kingdom.

Today we call each other brother, or, sister. Not as a religious title; as family. And, as Jesus' brothers and sisters, together, welcomed into his house, our home, we give thanks to his Father, and ours, God.