The word for the day is SANCTIFICATION

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.    Rumi

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The word for the day is sanctify

I love the word sanctify Lord

I want to be set apart

I want to be a person with a special purpose

I want to be sacred

holy

But Lord

really?

I mean I was told that when I ‘found’ you

I would become fresh and new

everything would change

but I look in the mirror

I look at my calendar

I look at my life

my relationships

my behavior

and everything is pretty amazingly

the same

old

I don’t feel set apart

I feel very mixed in

to all the ways of the world

to all that is common

and so very ‘not holy’

but Lord

I am holy

and sacred

for I am a container

in which the sacred resides

You are in me Lord

you dwell in my inner most places

you stir in the depths of my being

and I am unmistakably

irrevocably

irresistibly

sacred

special

set aside

thank you Lord

for the moments when I am aware

awake

alive with your presence

for those moments when the wind of the Spirit

moves

for those times of peace

and joy

and those moments when I reach out

and touch someone

with love and compassion

those moments are there Lord

all the time

Saint Stephen

I kind of like the sound of that!

 J

AMEN