February 20. Welcoming the rainbow after the storm David wondered,“South Africa likes to see itself as the Rainbow Nation and we have borrowed the image from this Bible story about Noah and the Flood.  What is its message?  That God has made a pact with us that he will always be present?  But can it also strike one that a rainbow is made up of different colours each having their place, some maybe even more attractive than others to different people.   Is some of our battle over racism bogged down in refusing to recognise and accept that differences are real?     

Reflect, share. Scripture This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, I set my bow in the cloud and it shall be a sign.  Gen 9:1-13.   Pope Francis.   Christian morality is not a form of stoicism, or self-denial, or merely a practical philosophy or a catalogue of sins and faults.  Before all else the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others. EG39. JUBILEE.  Let us never forget that our hearts are not self-sufficient, but frail and wounded. They possess an ontological dignity, yet at the same time must seek an ever more dignified life. The ferment of the Gospel has aroused and continues to arouse in human hearts an unquenchable thirst for human dignity”. Let us turn to the heart of Chris where we truly come at last to know ourselves and we learn how to love.  DN 30.  Prayer and action.  Pray for deeper love of the heart of Jesus.  Choose appropriate action.