What we choose
changes us
Who we love
transforms us
How we create
remakes us
Where we live
reshapes us
So in all our choosing,
O God make us wise,
In all our loving,
O Christ make us bold,
In all our creating
O Spirit, give us courage
In all our living
may we become whole
Jan
Richardson, In Wisdom’s Path, p. 24
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It has been shockingly bad year
but then aren’t all years, all decades, all centuries
each in their own way?
but we have been humbled
by our capacity to choose poorly
our fearful reluctance to love
our timid reticence which restrains us
keeping us from chasing our dreams
we have seen, in this year of plague and poverty
in this foul season of abused power and hoarded wealth
how we are shaped by our the communities which surround
us
how values and beliefs
attitudes, and social norms
trickled down
and seep into our hearts and souls
melding, sometimes
clashing, sometimes
with the Sacred, which is woven into
the fabric of our being
altering and at times impairing
the way we see the world, and others
and yes!
God
we have chosen personal freedom,
and released a pandemic
we have chosen hate and fear
and have release enmity and retribution
we have chosen exclusionary tribalism
and have closed our hearts to those around us
close our eyes to the ills of the world
closed our hands
until they have become fists
O Lord
In this season of solstice when we celebrate
The return of light to creation
When we celebration the arrival of love
And honor the incarnation of love
As we look forward into an uncertain future
peering fretfully down and dim and twisted path
where the virus still lurks,
and abusers bully
and hate grips fear full hearts
help us to choose wisely
help us to choose love
help us to express our best selves
help us to create homes, and workplaces
and places of worship
where the original blessing can be rediscovered
where we can find ourselves again
as Sacred Children
it is time to participate
in epiphany
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