Healthy communities are only possible when people have access to stable employment, incomes, affordable and quality housing and nutritious food. We need to challenge the status quo. Truth matters even and especially when it is hard to hear. All are given tasks in God's kingdom, which often involves working to change the human conditions which are broken. The call of God was heard by Samuel, Philip and Nathanael. We all develop our own relationship with God, and often it takes others to aid us in understanding the call God places before us. Here I am God, to your power and glory.

Amen.

Based on the readings for the week: 1 Samuel 3:1-10; John 1:43-51.