Thursday 12 July

Hosea 11:1-4,8-9, Ps.80, Matthew 10:7-15

Israel, how could I give you up?

Do we, can we, ever realise and believe just how much, how tenderly God loves each one of us? Probably we never can, but sometimes it is good to just sit and soak up that love and that tenderness, and today’s first reading would be a very good place to start.