13B24.   Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24.   Our God is love and his love is the only source of any true goodness.  At its very root it is only from and through our God comes goodness.  What is evil is made to seem to appear good so to be attractive but is not genuinely good, since it is not from God.

Mark 5:21-43.    When in fact and deed we genuinely live dependent on God, actually drawing on God as the source of the life we live, then we have made real that we are a true daughter or son of God.  Jesus addressed the woman, who put her faith in Jesus if she just touched his clothes, as “daughter.”  She was drawing from the spiritual life of Jesus and not from the forces of the earthly life of this world that had abandoned her to her bodily affliction.  After the synagogue official had learned that his daughter had died, Jesus said to him, “Do not be afraid; just have faith.”  When Jesus said to mourners outside the synagogue official’s house, “the child is not dead but asleep,” “they ridiculed him” because they had no faith in Jesus.  Despite the faithlessness of the mourners, the little girl did rise and eat because of God’s loving goodness.

2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15.   Jesus “though he was rich, for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.”  Jesus was in a certain sense infinitely rich when he was in heaven but became poor when he chose to live as an infant totally dependent on his mother.  Following his example when we have an abundance, we should be willing share from our abundance with those who are in need.