The Letter That Changed Everything

In 2019, Alice Plebuch of Vancouver, Washington, received DNA test results that made no sense. She was 100% Irish Catholic — or so she'd believed for sixty years. The test showed Eastern European Jewish and Middle Eastern ancestry. What followed was a years-long investigation that uncovered a hospital baby swap in 1913. Her father had been raised in the wrong family. An entire identity — heritage, belonging, lineage — had been hidden in plain sight for over a century.

When the truth finally emerged, Alice didn't lose a family. She gained one. Cousins she never knew existed welcomed her with open arms. A mystery kept secret for generations was finally brought into the light, and it expanded everything she thought she knew about who she was and where she belonged.

Paul writes to the Ephesians about exactly this kind of stunning revelation. For centuries, God's plan was hidden — the breathtaking mystery that Gentiles would be fellow heirs, sharing the same body and the same promise as Israel through Christ Jesus. Nobody saw it coming. The religious establishment certainly didn't expect it. But God, in His manifold wisdom, had been weaving this plan since before the foundations of the world.

And here is the best part: this mystery wasn't revealed just so we could admire it from a distance. Through faith in Christ, Paul says, we have bold and confident access to the Father. The secret is out. The door is open. And every single one of us is invited to walk through it.