Quote for reflection (Sunday, January 1, 2023)

“Stevie Wonder used to have a hit that said, ‘I just called to say I love you.’ In Jesus, in this birth it is as if God were saying to you, and to you, and to you, and to me, ‘I just called to say I love you….’ God through Jesus says to you, ‘…You are precious to me and help me to have a truly Anno Domino in 2000 – a new society, compassionate and gentle, caring and sharing – for I just called to say I love you.’”

From Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 1999 Christmas sermon at the Washington National Cathedral