Today’s text
1 John 2:24b-25
“If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.”
Prayer
Already the bird sings out the window, Joyous One. Surely you are Creator of spring’s in-breaking, and the bird’s song is your own, arising from the lightness of being that fills the heart on such days as this.
Earth arises from winter’s little death. The seasons turn as tender green wrestles with winter grayness. And hope bubbles from source unseen, awakening awareness that I am part of all this, inextricably connected with the mystery of life and you.
You promise eternal life, and I think I could be well satisfied with an everlasting supply of days like today, filled with hope and the savor of your presence. I dwell with and in the heart of life and joy you are, utterly certain that it is love that has given rise to days like this … and to me.
This is eternity, isn’t it, Holy Joy? Eternal life is to dwell with and in you, knowing no separation but only the enveloping presence of you, who are loving joy beyond my capacity to imagine or feel. But today I think I have a taste of what you promise. Thank you. Amen.
Pr. David L. Miller
http://prayingthemystery.blogspot.com/
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Today’s text
1 John 2:23-25
“No one who denies the Son has the Father; everyone who confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he has promised us, eternal life."
Prayer
You are most gracious and courteous, Holy Mystery. You constantly invite me to abide and to abide in you. The thought of dwelling near the heart of your eternal kindness is my highest desire. I can want no more. But what is this abiding?
I hear in your words a call to come home from restless wandering, to rest, to remain, to find my home not in the life and reputation which I make for myself but in you.
Our hearts search for home, a place to be and belong, a safe space for body and soul. But, too often, we believe the illusion that it is something we make for ourselves. This is our temptation, and it leads to anxious work, to justifying ourselves and our value, to greed and defensiveness lest we lose our place in the world.
Our place is in you. You invite us to let our minds rest and remain not in thoughts of what we have or will accomplished, but in the eternal love that fashions and hold all things together, the love that holds me and which is a bubbling fountain of life and joy flowing in my own hidden depths.
Let my mind rest and remain in this love today, not in my anxieties about who I am or what I must do. Let me rest and remain in you. For you alone are my home. Amen.
Pr. David L. Miller
1 John 2:23-25
“No one who denies the Son has the Father; everyone who confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he has promised us, eternal life."
Prayer
You are most gracious and courteous, Holy Mystery. You constantly invite me to abide and to abide in you. The thought of dwelling near the heart of your eternal kindness is my highest desire. I can want no more. But what is this abiding?
I hear in your words a call to come home from restless wandering, to rest, to remain, to find my home not in the life and reputation which I make for myself but in you.
Our hearts search for home, a place to be and belong, a safe space for body and soul. But, too often, we believe the illusion that it is something we make for ourselves. This is our temptation, and it leads to anxious work, to justifying ourselves and our value, to greed and defensiveness lest we lose our place in the world.
Our place is in you. You invite us to let our minds rest and remain not in thoughts of what we have or will accomplished, but in the eternal love that fashions and hold all things together, the love that holds me and which is a bubbling fountain of life and joy flowing in my own hidden depths.
Let my mind rest and remain in this love today, not in my anxieties about who I am or what I must do. Let me rest and remain in you. For you alone are my home. Amen.
Pr. David L. Miller
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Today’s text
1 John 2:23-25
“No one who denies the Son has the Father; everyone who confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.” (1 John 2:23-25).
Prayer
What have I have heard from the beginning? I have heard that you, my brother, Jesus, are the face of the Holy Mystery who long has haunted me. You are the source and substance of Life Eternal, the font and final fulfillment of all life. From the beginning, you are the truth, the love who is the origin of all I see and more I cannot. You are light, and in you there is no darkness, but only purity of Being and Love who fills all time and space--and who seeks to complete me.
You are all this and more I cannot speak. For you are always More, more love, more compassion, more life, more joy, more mystery, more than I can think or imagine. You are always greater--greater than human struggles and sorrow, greater than despair and suffering, greater than our hopes and dreams, greater than our fears and failures, greater than all that troubles and disfigures us body and soul. You are the Ever-Greater One, and you abide in my brother Jesus.
This you have told us from the beginning. And my heart has long known that the contours of Jesus’ life and face are the features of eternity, of you, O Eternal Wonder.
Let us abide in you, Jesus. Teach our hearts to rest and remain in your love and beauty. In that abiding, we meet the love you are, knowing you and ourselves as if for the first time. In you, we discover the unspeakable wonder that, like you, our created bodies bear the Uncreated Beauty of the Ever-Greater One. Amen.
Pr. David L. Miller
1 John 2:23-25
“No one who denies the Son has the Father; everyone who confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.” (1 John 2:23-25).
Prayer
What have I have heard from the beginning? I have heard that you, my brother, Jesus, are the face of the Holy Mystery who long has haunted me. You are the source and substance of Life Eternal, the font and final fulfillment of all life. From the beginning, you are the truth, the love who is the origin of all I see and more I cannot. You are light, and in you there is no darkness, but only purity of Being and Love who fills all time and space--and who seeks to complete me.
You are all this and more I cannot speak. For you are always More, more love, more compassion, more life, more joy, more mystery, more than I can think or imagine. You are always greater--greater than human struggles and sorrow, greater than despair and suffering, greater than our hopes and dreams, greater than our fears and failures, greater than all that troubles and disfigures us body and soul. You are the Ever-Greater One, and you abide in my brother Jesus.
This you have told us from the beginning. And my heart has long known that the contours of Jesus’ life and face are the features of eternity, of you, O Eternal Wonder.
Let us abide in you, Jesus. Teach our hearts to rest and remain in your love and beauty. In that abiding, we meet the love you are, knowing you and ourselves as if for the first time. In you, we discover the unspeakable wonder that, like you, our created bodies bear the Uncreated Beauty of the Ever-Greater One. Amen.
Pr. David L. Miller
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Today’s text
1 John 2:20-22
“But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and you know that no lie comes from the truth. Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son” (1 John 2:20-22).
Prayer
What do we know of truth but that which you reveal in us, Holy One? And this is no ordinary knowledge. Our knowledge comes not by intellectual grasping but is a more complex reality, a splendid awareness we never possess but which we enter through the door of your humanity and ours.
You invite us to know that Eternity wears mortal flesh, that Infinite Wonder bears a finite face, that Truth Itself cannot be thought but only touched and held. We look upon the face of Jesus and know not one more human life but the Everlasting Love who is the Truth not of this or that but of all that is.
It is true: I cannot think you. But I take in your face, my Jesus, and the faces of those in whom something of your life seems to dwell, and I know the Holy One does not separate matter and Spirit, flesh and Infinity, time and Eternity. You join them so that Truth may be seen and touched, known not by mind but by clumsy hands and disbelieving eyes fumbling over a treasure beyond human imagining.
Who would believe what we have perceived? For we see and know you. Touching and seeing your life, we enter the door of your humanity and ours into love’s knowledge of Love’s speaking and breathing in human flesh, including our own.
Then, we know the truth: Limitless Life dwells in finite flesh. You wouldn’t have it any other way, would you, Holy One? Amen.
--Pr. David L. Miller
1 John 2:20-22
“But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and you know that no lie comes from the truth. Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son” (1 John 2:20-22).
Prayer
What do we know of truth but that which you reveal in us, Holy One? And this is no ordinary knowledge. Our knowledge comes not by intellectual grasping but is a more complex reality, a splendid awareness we never possess but which we enter through the door of your humanity and ours.
You invite us to know that Eternity wears mortal flesh, that Infinite Wonder bears a finite face, that Truth Itself cannot be thought but only touched and held. We look upon the face of Jesus and know not one more human life but the Everlasting Love who is the Truth not of this or that but of all that is.
It is true: I cannot think you. But I take in your face, my Jesus, and the faces of those in whom something of your life seems to dwell, and I know the Holy One does not separate matter and Spirit, flesh and Infinity, time and Eternity. You join them so that Truth may be seen and touched, known not by mind but by clumsy hands and disbelieving eyes fumbling over a treasure beyond human imagining.
Who would believe what we have perceived? For we see and know you. Touching and seeing your life, we enter the door of your humanity and ours into love’s knowledge of Love’s speaking and breathing in human flesh, including our own.
Then, we know the truth: Limitless Life dwells in finite flesh. You wouldn’t have it any other way, would you, Holy One? Amen.
--Pr. David L. Miller
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