Sacred Magic

Often it is the most ordinary, miraculous events of our daily lives defy our most sophisticated measurements, our most eloquent explanations, our educated knowings.

Why love? Why illness, why healing? Why grace, birth and death, beauty, color, music, kindness - all moments of mysterious ripenings of life, and time. Why does one portal open, and another simply close? What in us gives birth to the unimaginably astonishing? How do we refuse, hinder, obstruct the emergent miraculous, the ache of the sacred in human events?

                                                                Wayne Muller, Blog post, Wayne on Wednesday September 16, 2015 _________________________________________________________________

do you believe in magic?

do you believe there are things we just cannot explain

no matter how hard we try?

so many things in this life

defy explanation

we try to make everything fit

our pathetic little formulas

this happens because of that

cause and effect

nice

and

clean

but there is so much we cannot explain

there is

magic

a sunrise

a baby’s smile

there are those moments when we know

we have not been treated

the way we deserve

(grace)

there is love

unearned

just given

Ah, this is the greatest magic

love

God’s love

surprising, fresh

new every morning

ours for the receiving

the experiencing

ours for the rejecting

the hindering

“the emergent miraculous, the ache of the sacred”

Sacred Presence

Sacred Magic

yes

I do

believe