spark

Friday January 10^th, John 1:  ⁹ The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. ¹⁰ He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. ¹¹ He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. ¹² Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— ¹³ children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.  All who believed in the name of God have been given the right to become a child of God…  And those who did not believe in God’s name??  Perhaps we jump too quickly to conclusions fed from our own darkness in projecting negative human attributes onto God.  For in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and all that lives therein and called it good.  Surely even those who did not recognize him still carry that spark of God created goodness within.  Perhaps our job is to recognize that spark.