Grace bats last

Our nature is already endowed with grace, and thus our task is to be attentive to that which is within and that which is without—mind and heart—so that we may contribute to building up the world in love.

 

Our lives have meaning and purpose. . . We either help build this world up in love or tear it apart.

                     Ilia Delio

 

Grace bats last

                     Anne Lamott

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Texas

Ida

Droughts

Wild Fires

Covid-19

Anti-Vaxxers

Anti-Maskers

Nationalism

 

The list goes on, and on, and on, and on.

And where it stops?

 

We know.

 

It feels sometimes as if we do know where it will stop.

As if the world is whirling toward disintegration.

As if hate will win and we will be left staggering through the smoke of its destruction, hopeless and helpless.

 

We see the arrogance of those who would abuse power

We hear them boast

We see them pervert justice, because they can,

 

And then,

 

a still small voice

that comes not from up there, out there

but from our deepest place

 

that place that makes us who we are

 

the whisper of original blessing

of Sacred Presence

 

that reminds us that we participate in God

and God participates in us.

 

That inner presence that reminds us

That we are not writing the story by ourselves

 

That we are participating in the great story!

Written not just by ourselves,

but by all others, and by God.

 

We are in the story, we are part of the story

but we are not alone

it is not our story, it is the story

 

and as the divine image bubbles up from our soul

we are part of the great revolution

the great transformation

the new heaven and the new earth

the new creation

the peaceable kingdom

the kingdom of God

 

as we participate in God

and allow God to participate in us

we build the world up,

 

this story has an ending

grace bats last!