Jesus Christ is making a new creation out of us, out of our lives. Being made new, however, means that we will change and change is a fearful process for most of us. The question is, do we trust God to change us, or are we going to just be stuck with the people we have made out of ourselves?

St. Paul makes the outrageous assumption that everyone is gifted. There is not a special class for the gifted among the followers of Jesus. Now lets just get down to the business of putting those gifts to use.

Everybody has a time in their lives when they want to fit in. For some of us that time just never seems to arrive. St. Paul suggests that fitting in is not the point. Rather we are called to have our lives transformed by the love of God in Jesus Christ.

We encounter lots of experiences on our journey that would seem to be able to separate us from Gods love. St. Paul, however, begs to differ. He lists everything he can think of that might appear to stand between us and the love of God; and in the light of that divine love all those barriers disappear.

The Athenians have many shrines to many gods, among them an unknown god. Paul arrives to tell them who this unknown god really is and what God is doing among them.