wake up

With

passion pray

with passion make love,

with

passion work,

with passion eat and drink

and dance and

play

Why look

like a dead fish

in

this ocean

of

G

o

d

.

Rumi (The Subject Tonight Is Love, Trans. Ladinsky)

___________________

Perhaps the problem

is not

that our theology is wrong,

or our litany is tired

Perhaps the issue is not our music

which is either old

and sometimes tiresome

or new

and repetitive and shallow

Perhaps the problem

is not

perhaps the problem is

that we have lost our passion

for God

for justice

for equity

perhaps we have lost our passion

not just for God

and the Sacred way

but

for people

those people who surround us

the poor, the hungry

the homeless

the family fleeing

oppression and death

the person who is addicted

and the one

who is mentally ill

the one who struggles

the one who has failed

We cannot have passion for God

without passion for people

for each person is

a

child

of

God

each person carries divine presence

the Sacred looks out

through every set of eyes

no passion for people

is perhaps

a symptom, more than an illness

if we love God with passion

we will inevitably love others

as

ourselves

so wake up

children of God

wake up to passion

wake up to God

and

with passion

live this new day