Friday, September 07, 2007

Friday, September 7, 2007

Today’s text

Luke 14:12-14

[Jesus] said to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Prayer

You do want not us to miss a single joy, do you Jesus? You want us to share the ancient elation that bubbles in your depths, lest we miss the divine delight by which and for which we are made. You want us to taste the ecstasy of God’s own heart that we know the One from whom our beings spring fresh each morning.

So you welcome, no, you urge us toward the joy of the blessedness of God. The Loving Mystery delights to give life to those who possess nothing to repay the divine majesty for the gift of being. We possess and are nothing but for the generosity of the Joyous Spring of Life of whom you, Jesus, are the face.

With the gift of being filling our lungs, you invite us to share God’s delight by giving as God lives, living as God loves, loving as God is. You invite us to share in the being of Being Itself by giving with no expectation of return, but for the crazy liberating joy of this divine madness.

And it would be madness, but for the tears that unexpectedly appear in moments of such loving, revealing a fulfillment of soul beyond human expectation.

So invite us far beyond what is expected, Jesus. There we will know you in the joy and freedom of God you are eager to share. We need and want nothing more.

Pr. David L. Miller

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