The readings at this time of year cover Jesus' miracles and teaching. This is where we meet the Jesus of the every day, the Jesus of farmers and fisherman, who told stories of lost sheep, a man beaten up by the roadside, a ponsy landowner, fishers of men, treasure buried in a field, seed sown by the wayside, or, as in today's gospel, where Jesus and his discpiles have gone to Capernaum and they argue about who is the greatest. Jesus asks a little boy to come and stand among them, and reminds them that, ‘Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes .....the one who sent me.' Our God is a God of the people, not in far off Jerusalem, but walking every day through the fields, and along the shores, of Galilee.

PIcture above: Extract from Jesus Christ with the children, Painting by Carl Bloch from the Museum of National History (Denmark). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Let_the_Little_Children_Come_unto_Jesus.jpg