In a soap opera, it’s hard to tell who belongs to whom—everyone’s connected, tangled, and crossing boundaries. But what if that’s not just TV chaos? In Acts 10, Peter watches the Holy Spirit fall on people he thought were outsiders. Suddenly, the lines between “us” and “them” disappear. God is saying these are all my children.

This Mother’s Day, we reflect on a different kind of love—one that’s not bound by bloodlines but led by compassion. It’s the kind of love we see in bunkers during war, when mothers hold strangers’ children as their own. The kind of love we hear in the cries of the hurting. The kind of love God pours out on everyone, whether we’re ready for it or not.