Assumption: Commentary on The Reed of God - Part 4

Assumption In this last part of the book, Houselander tells a very tender story about a woman who adopted a boy after her son had been killed in the war. “She gave him everything that her son had owned. There was no doubt of her love for him. There could be none for those who saw her face, whether-beaten and lined, marked and sealed with sorrow, and yet shining with quiet happiness. One day a neighbor said to her: “I would never have thought that you would put another boy in your son's place.” “I have not she answered simply there is only one boy, Jesus Christ.” This is the challenge for all of us. It is not that the woman did not recognize the uniqueness of both her son who died and her adopted son. She did. But she recognized more deeply what it meant to be made in the image and likeness of God.