Wednesday, November 25, 2020
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Origin and Purpose
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one another, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
The world around us is crafty at convincing us to take credit for all that we are and all we have done yet it is God who creates our brains, our aptitudes and our gifts. In God’s time and in God’s space we are each created as God’s children with varying talents, capacities and dreams.
God says: I love you each for your own special place in my heart. I love you all as you come together in my son’s mystical body. I have created you and I have also created a world in which you are free to live. It is true that you do not possess equal skills or intellect. Some of you run quickly with the wind to scout out distant lands and ideas. Others of you see far horizons and are able to mesh complex ideas. Yet some of you have narrow vision and are full of fear while others have grave disabilities and intense anxiety and sadness. But each of you is singular, distinctive and extraordinary in your own way. Try to see what I see when you become impatient with others. Even in the worst of you there are wonderful ideas. Try to hear what I hear when I listen to the pleas from your heart. Even in the most spiteful of you there is a place for goodness to grow. Try to feel what I feel when I clasp all of you to my heart. Even in the most callous of you there is a heart that yearns for union. Be grateful. Give thanks. Always.
Let us teach and admonish one another that from our small perspective it is impossible to take in the complexity and beauty of God’s creation. Let us encourage one another to be grateful on this day for the gifts we hold in this moment and in this place. And let us sing hymns and songs of thanksgiving for these gifts to God, the origin and the purpose of all.
For some interesting posts on finding God in the midst of life, click on the image above or go to: http://godinthemidst.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html
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