help my unbelief

“We cannot wait for the world to turn, for times to change that we might change with them, for the revolution to come and carry us around in its new course. We are the future. We are the revolution.”

                                                    Beatrice Bruteau

My heart shall sing of the day you bring. Let the

fires of your justice burn. Wipe away all tears, for the dawn draws near,

and the world is about to turn!

                                                   Canticle of the Turning

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In the darkness of a new day

as the sun slowly oozes into a smoke filled sky

and an early heat gives lie

to the coming fall

I sit hesitant

I recall the words of Maya Angelou

“This is a wonderful day,

  I’ve never seen this one before”

And as the gray evolves into red and orange

And the colors of the mountain

stun

I do not want to lose this momentary hope

I do not want to go onto the internet

or turn on my phone

and let the world into this space

I know the world is out there

with its violence and hate

with its greed and lies

I know that there are people in power

Who lie awake at night plotting evil

Who are committed to a destructive course

and will not turn from wrong (Psalm 35)

but for this moment

I want to rest in the creative power of the Sacred

I want to believe in the fact that it is a God soaked world

That people, all people carrying within them divine DNA

The likeness of love

I want to believe that this Love

Incarnate in Jesus

Binds us together

And moves us forward

I want to believe the divine manifests

“through the natural, physical, and human world” (Rohr, Stoner, Swanson)

I want to believe in “radical optimism” (Beatrice Bruteau)

I want to believe the words of the old hymn

“God is working His purpose out as year succeeds to year;

God is working his purpose out, and the time is drawing near;

Nearer and nearer draws the time, the time that shall surely be,

When the earth shall be filled With the glory of God

As the waters cover the sea”

But it is hard to believe, in these times

In Sacred Evolution

In the idea that God is moving us forward to a new place

Some believe this new world can only come through destruction and chaos

And so they cheer these days

I believe this new world comes through death

Indeed

But through our dying to greed

And hate

And racism

And fear

Through our dying to self

So that we can embrace that common center

we all share

that bond, that divine heritage

and thus see the value in all creation

all living things

and above all, all people

all

and live accordingly

loving in the Kingdom

I do believe

Lord help my unbelief

Help me be the revolution