Seeing the Sacred

Why did Jesus come? Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity. It didn't need changing. God has organically, inherently loved what God created from the moment God created it. Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God.

As our image of God changes, our image of God’s creation, including ourselves, changes as well.

                                                                                                     Richard Rohr, Daily Blog, 1/4/17

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How do I see the Sacred?

That’s a tough question

Where do I see the Sacred?

Even tougher.

But the answer to the second question profoundly shapes

my answer to the first!

I do find God in the writings of people from days gone by

in the Bible, yes

In the realization that in Genesis one, as the Sacred views

Creation God says, over and over again,

“It was good”  even “It was very good”

If find God in the words of the angels at Christmas

Where it is proclaimed that God is sending a gift to human

“with whom God is pleased” (yes, it really says that!)

I see God in other writings too

The words of people like Thich Naht Hanh

And Francis of Assisi, and in the glorious poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

I see God in frigid winter mornings

As the snow sparkles like jewels

And in the warm summer mornings as the sun blazes orange

It see Sacred Presence in the gold tamaracks, nestled among the deep green

of firs and pines

I see it in a horse leaping

a cat playing

I hear the sacred in Coyotes laughing and Owls

Hooting in the dark.

And I believe, thus

In Sacred as Love

And believe in original blessing

That we were created good, and loving and kind

And I believe, that as we connect with Sacred Presence

We can return to what we were created to be

No matter how far we have strayed

And if I believe that God loves me

And if I believe that God loves you

And it I believe we all carrying original blessing

Then I must be changed

And no matter how easy it is to move to fear

And anger

Not matter how easy it is to believe in wealth and power

I must always return

Again and again

To love

And forgiveness

And compassion

And generosity

Evil is challenging, as I don’t know what to do with it

I struggle with those who chose power and wealth over people

But I must return to love

And I must work, not to accept evil

Or collude with it

But to fight it

with the tools of love