Much in our world can make us anxious or afraid, whether terror attacks in Bourke Street or our changing climate or a medical diagnosis. Our media and our politicians seem to delight to stoke the flame of our anxiety. It is tempting at times, therefore, to withdraw into ourselves or to live in fear.
Jesus recognised this danger and taught his disciples neither to trust in temporal things (be they wealth or property) nor to be worried by events (whether wars, famine or natural disasters). He taught instead
to keep on trusting in God. Likewise the writer of the letter to the Hebrews exhorts us to keep meeting together and to provoke one another to love and good deeds.
May we all hold on to Jesus’ promise to be with us always, to the very end of the age (Matt 28:20).