From today’s first reading: “The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt . . . But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD. I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

From De La Salle’s Meditations (195.2): “[The students] must also be convinced that they are a letter that Jesus Christ dictates to you, which you write each day in their heart. . . by the Spirit of the living God. . . ."

The days are here. We are writing on our students’ hearts, writing God’s words and love within them, words to be implanted forever. We write with our words, our actions, our attitudes.

A thought, shaped by the double plan article sent yesterday: When we think about our lessons and other activities with students this week, what about God do we think that we are writing? As we look at our plans from the student perspective, what will they hear? Will they hear that God is truly their god, and they truly his beloved children? What letter from God will they become?

Live, Jesus, in our hearts!