“Now I am revealing new things to you
Things hidden and unknown to you
Created just now, this very moment.
Of these things you have heard nothing until now.
So that you cannot say, Oh yes, I knew this.”
-Isaiah 48:6-7
The word for today: Opening
In some unique way, we are opening ourselves to the mystery of God, saying yes to Life, to ourselves, consenting to the Spirit’s Presence in our lives here and now. We long to breakthrough the limitations of the small self bound by ego, tradition, one’s culture and family of origin. We long for a fuller life, for deeper meaning and purpose.
Are we willing to open ourselves? Courageous enough to move from captivity to freedom, to welcome transformation, to say YES to life, freedom and new beginnings?
“To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do – to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst – is, by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still. The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed.”
-Frederick Buechner, a Presbyterian Minister and Writer
Music for your morning time of prayer, meditation, and reflection
“I don’t know Who, or What, put the question, I don’t know WHEN it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something, and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.”
-Dag Hammarskjold
“The world is a prison and we are the prisoners:
Dig a hole in the prison wall and let yourself out!”
-Rumi
Let your heart take courage!
We are all sparks of the Divine flame
Blessed Be
Boldly Be
Compassionate Be
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