248 You Are a Child of God…Really!

Transcript Speaker 1: Even some of your poets have said, for we too are his offspring. Since, therefore, we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination. Welcome back to Scripture for your inner outcasts. It's May 13th, 2026, Wednesday of the sixth week of Easter. I'll be providing the reflection for today's episode. My name is Elizabeth and I'm the producer and host of Scripture for Your Inner Outcast. In today's first reading, we hear in acts of the apostles how Saint Paul visits the people of Athens and in Athens. He remarks, even some of your poets have said, for we too are his offspring. Since, therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination. What I'd like to focus on here is how Saint Paul says that we are the offspring of God. And he also points out that some Athenian poets have already said we too are his offspring, referring to an unknown god that the Greeks believed in. And Saint Paul says that since we humans are the offspring of God, that means that divinity is not an image in gold or silver or stone. Just like the Greek statues of other Greek gods were. But rather God is a living person. In fact, he's three people. So much so that he can create offspring. Us. We are made in the image and likeness of God. Speaker 1: Now for you who are cast out of your internal family system, you who are so little and so tiny, and whose burdens are so big that the rest of your system can't handle it. You might not feel like the offspring of anybody. You might not even know what the word offspring means. It needs to be a little child. You might not feel like you belong with any parent in particular, because maybe your experience is that you've been cast out of your family, your internal family, for years and years and years. But this verse here in the Bible offers hope that if we are the offspring of God, that means that he is our parent. He is your father. And so I want to offer hope that if it feels like you are fatherless, if it feels like you are motherless, you have a primary father and also a primary mother and God the Father. And in Mary, our mother, and they're accessible through prayer. So to you, little outcasts, to you exiled parts, if you feel like you don't have parents, well, that very well might be your experience. And I'm here to tell you, just like Saint Paul says, that no matter who your parents on earth are and what they've done or what they've failed to do, your primary father is God the Father in heaven. And any failures of your earthly parents do not apply to God the Father, who created you solely for the purpose of entering into relationship with him. Speaker 2: For further reading on the topic of God the Father and the Blessed Virgin Mary as your primary parents, check out the article linked in the description of today's show. With that, we'll end with our invocations. Our Lady, our mother, Untier of knots. Pray for us, Saint Joseph, pray for us. Saint John the Baptist pray for us.