Monday, August 30, 2021
Good News!
Watered gardens, priests with souls of abundance, shouts of joy, radiance at the generosity of the Lord, new wine and new oil, virgins dancing, old and young men rejoicing together, return from the land of the enemy. Surely all will rejoice with this good news!
Set up road marks, place guideposts, turn and return to God.
Days are coming when the Lord will write a new covenant on our hearts rather than on tablets of stone in the desert. I will be their God and they will be my people. There will be no need for instruction each to his neighbor for all will know the Lord.
Days are coming and indeed, they are already here. We have every reason to rejoice!
This is the Good News of the Return from Exile. It is the description of The Road we must travel. It is the reminder that there is An End to Our Mourning. It is The Summons Home. It is the Certainty of God’s Promise. And it is the prediction of the Rebuilding of Jerusalem.
We are a people in exile who yearn for the running water which flows through Jerusalem.
We are a pilgrim people who travel The Way laid out for us by Jesus, the Savior.
We are a chastened people who wish to cease mourning.
We are a hopeful people who respond to the Call to turn and return.
We are a faithful people who remember our Covenant with the Creator.
We are a loving and love-filled people who tremble with the anticipation of the Holy Spirit.
We are a holy people who witness, work and wait.
For the days are coming and, indeed . . . they are already here!
Adapted from a reflection written on October 24, 2007
Images from: http://poetrybydeborahann.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/if-god-is-the-potter/ and http://loudcry.org/sda/archives/4998 and http://www.journeythroughthestory.com/2014/08/ezekiel-3637.html
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