I am a wanderer. I would say that I am a seeker, but sometimes I have no idea what I might be seeking, so I will stick with wanderer. This blog is more a public journal than anything. I don't claim to have life figured out. I simply stumble from mystery to mystery, and share my reflections along the way. Sometimes I feel burdened, and trudge. Sometimes? Well sometimes grace breaks through, and its time to dance.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
As if Christ had never come
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river
moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi
“Or Not”
--- Stephen
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I am speechless today
I know that seems impossible to most of you
but I am simply speechless
too many odd encounters with people
oozing fear and anger
to many headlines that grab my heart
and tear it
it is not so much the views
that rend my soul
nor even the behaviors
of people political
and not political
that assail the fabric of my being
it is the spirituality of fear
and anger
and ultimately hate
that shocks me to my soul
the fruits of true spirituality
should be joy, and peace, and love
and yet we see anger and discord and hate
often in the name of freedom
all too often in the name of God
there is something wrong
deep down
in our souls
in the soul of our communities
our counties
our nation
when we spend our time and energy
hoarding,
minimizing the poor
trusting violence and guns rather than God
making money the centerpiece of our faith (even churches
are doing this)
I was driven this morning back to the prophets
and found them speaking to me
again
out of the years of human wandering
again
as if from that place from which the spoke
we have somehow
never left
never learned
it is quite honestly
as if
Christ had never come
deliver us O Lord
from our fears
from our hate
from all those things
that drive us spiritually
into the abyss
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Isa 58:6-11
6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to
loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the
oppressed free and break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your food with the
hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter — when you see the naked,
to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? 8 Then your
light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then
your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear
guard. 9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help,
and he will say: Here am I.
"If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with
the pointing finger and malicious talk, 10 and if you spend yourselves in
behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light
will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. 11 The
Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and
will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring
whose waters never fail.
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