Thursday, July 23, 2020
All Creation
Hungry to Hear
Isaiah 43:10
You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Mark 16:15
And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.
Words of Grace For Today
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Good God, is this it?
Awake again, dripping rain, cool, no mosquitoes.
I see the grass, the trees, and the lake.
God is here. I have seen him again and again in the most mundane and and the most spectacular.
Yet I know I am missing something. I missed so many clues along the way.
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Each morning I remember that Jesus faced his betrayal, willingly suffering everything…
God knows exactly what this is like.
Jesus tried to show us it is not necessary that anyone else be scapegoated or sacrificed or Gaslit in order that we make our way through life.
We imitate Christ to make our way through life, striving to forgive the unforgivable.
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Hoping that truth will be known.
Trusting God stands with us.
Leaning on the Holy Spirit.
Even as bit by bit our lives slip away into the hungry past as it gobbles up the present and our tomorrows.
Can we trust breath, ferocious wind, gentle silent breeze, spirit intangible
to guide our beating hearts, frantic minds, spasming muscles, and weary arthritic bones?
Truth, confessed, welcomes life and radiates it to others.
Let us strive for truth.
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And sleep enough? Maybe?
Even as the dark of night retreats as light wriggles across the land and water
calling us to rise to a new day
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But our minds slowly slip from us into the empty spaces between thoughts and visions
until in the bright baked light we scramble to catch up
with the obligations of life stacked up decades high
and search for
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something out of the dim past … what is it … so fleeting. It is gone.
Oh, yes hope. It was hope.
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Gone is hope?
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Not at all!
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The story that God gives us in Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, so that we may know and believe God and understand that God is God, gives us all the purpose, love and hope we need.
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Given that purpose, love and hope, we can go into all the world and proclaim the good news of Jesus’ story with our thoughts, words, and actions.