YOU ARE MY BELOVED CHILD. On you my favor rests." That's what God said on the day Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan River. God's favor. God's grace. God's love. Those words and the action of the baptism itself inspired Jesus to begin his mission: to go about doing good works and healing all who were in the grip of the devil, and to be a person of compassion, like a shepherd gathering the lambs in his arms.
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