Monday, Sept. 11, 2006

Today’s reading

Philippians 1:9-11

“And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you determine what is best …” (Phil. 1:9-10a).

Prayer

What do you give us, O Maker of the Morning? What is you pleasure for us this day? Much of the time we have no idea what we most need. Turing to you we discover that you have only one thing to give: the life that you are. Your life is that stream of love that flows from your exuberant unity in the hidden darkness of eternity into our little moment of time, seeking to fill all that is—and us.

Your pleasure is our fullness. Your joy is that we overflow with the love you are. Do we ever experience this, dearest Friend? I think so. There are moments when there seems no room left in me for anything but you, for you have driven everything else out. I am filled, complete, wanting and needing nothing, joyous beyond all sorrow, my soul filled yet with room for a multitude, fresh and new yet possessing a transcending wisdom that only love knows, aware of myself yet lifted above the ravenous energies of ego.

In such moments, your divine pleasure for us is clear, however temporary the time this filling might seem. But for that moment I am certain: You will complete us. You will not quit until it is done. You will not abandon your divine desire until you have filled our emptiness with the life you have long delivered to your great and holy ones. Fill us this day with that love that that leaves no room for anything else. Amen.


Pr. David L. Miller
Dean of the Chapel, Director of Spiritual Formation