look to your feet

I say that if you want to know who you are, if you are more than academically interested in that particular mystery, you could do a lot worse than look to your feet for an answer…Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.

Frederich Beuchner

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Children of God

That is who we are

Really!

We carry divine DNA

We carry the Sacred with us

Sure, we do it poorly sometimes

Perhaps most of the time

Yes, the image is blurred

There was that one life

In which the Sacred shown through with startling clarity

That one surprising, amazing life

Which started in a manger

Amidst the hay dust

And the fumes of manure

But for the most part we struggle

To be ourselves

And yet each day, we are called

And called, and called again

To be Sacred Children

To live love

To offer compassion

To be generous

To commit random acts of grace

Our feet should carry us

Into the places where light and love are needed

Into the dark places

The dirty places

Into the painful places

The lonely places

Our feet should take us to the poor

The isolated

The hungry

The homeless

And the fearful

Oh yes, we will go other places too

To places where we can be fed, and comforted

(for we have needs too)

To our jobs, our places of worship

Our homes

But even then

Our path should be determined 

By that call

And so each day

We should watch our feet

And let love and light guide them

Into the way of peace (Luke 1, Song of Zechariah)