Reverence Humming

In an interview with Rolling Stone Jane Fonda (yes her) was asked about the fact that she had become a Christian.  The interviewer said “that is pretty explosive”.  To which Fonda replied, “I could feel reverence humming within me.”

                                                                Story told by Rob Bell in ‘What we talk about when we talk about God”

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We wander through life

eat meals

grab taxis

rush through airports

go to meetings

Ah, the lovely smell of diesel

in the morning

Ah, the joy of bad hotel coffee

(where is an espresso joint when you need one?)

We go through days at work

seeing the same people

doing the same tasks

repeating

repeating

repeating

a pattern that become programed

into our very DNA

our very souls

and then

the sun breaks through the clouds

a friend call with anguish in her voice

a father walks down the concourse of the airport

with three little clones of himself

following

in line behind him

like ducklings following their mother

and suddenly all is changed

suddenly the divine energy

of the Sacred One who is

always, always there

but all too rarely seen

breaks through

is liberated

we realize that there is something deeper

something more

and ruach

“the expressed power, the divine energy”

hums within

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Thanks to Rob Bell for the concept of ruach