Wednesday, July 7, 2021
One cloud alone
reflects God’s light
at sunset.
As Two Clouds
‘walk’ the sky ‘hand in hand’,
So we walk in God’s light
with others in love,
as God walks with us.
Psalm 79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Words of Grace For Today
The beginning of every moment, every event, every situation, every life, every day … of every every is God’s Love.
God’s Love that created a universe with life in it, and us as life self-aware in among the many forms of life,
God’s Love that gave us freedom to love, and therefore freedom to not-love (that is: to sin),
God’s Love that holds the universe together (whether it’s String Theory or particles and strings, it’s all God’s Love),
God’s Love that holds life together, even our lives, giving us our daily needs, including meaningful labour and the ability to love and be loved,
God’s Love that gives us God’s answer to our sins: forgiveness and renewed life,
God’s Love that walks with us each moment of each day, even when we walk ourselves into the hell of the Evil One’s influence (as God’s Love keeps us walking right out the other side of hell back into life abundant),
God’s Love … it is the every every of our lives.
God loves us not for our sakes as if we somehow became more valuable and the purpose of the universe just because God loves us. Rather God loves us for God’s name’s sake, for God’s message about God to be seen and heard by all people through God’s grace acted out for us in forgiveness.
God forgives us and we receive life again. The rest of all humans, those long since have lived on earth, those that live now, and those that will live, receive a clear message about God: God loves people. God loves us. And God loves them!
We get to screw our lives, because we are going to anyway, and because we become the raw material for God’s communication to all humans: God’s clear message that God loves us, and that God’s Love is the beginning of all, it is the every of all, and it is the end of all in all (the purpose and the result and the finality – the end of all time for each human as well as that for all humans.)
Until then we are privileged to be the message of God’s Love for all people: that we are forgiven and renewed, and that we can live for others, as Jesus lived for others, that all people may have life, and life abundant!
So it is that we enjoy the reprieve from the record-breaking, sweltering heat of climate change that sat over us last week with the cool more common in autumn.
So it is that we prepare for the next days of heat, hopefully not record-breaking.
So it is that we learn to enjoy winter all that much more, and especially autumn, after the bugs are gone and before everything freezes requiring more wood for a modicum of warmth inside.
So it is that we enjoy having an ‘inside’ that can be heated against the cold outside.
So it is that we enjoy everything about life, and find pure joy in a breath of fresh air, a stormy day, and a calm morning sunrise … as we wait for our last sunset that comes to harvest every mortal creature … knowing God’s Love walks with us each precious day and will walk with us also then.
Until that day our purpose is to be the message for all humans, that God loves us all!
In this is love, not that we loved God but that God loved us and sent God’s only Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.