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Mark 1:35-38
In the morning, while it was
still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he
prayed. And Simon and his companions hunted for him. When they found
him, they said to him, ‘Everyone is searching for you.’ He answered, ‘Let
us go on to the neighboring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there
also; for that is what I came out to do.’
Where we are
They searched for you, and you went searching for them
… not knowing whether they would accept or deny you their time and attention. It didn't matter. You went anyway because this is who you are.
You are the searching love that seeks and finds us
where we are, in the common places of our lives, that we may hear your voice
and know the Love who is our source, our hope, our joy and our destiny.
You speak a kingdom that we need go nowhere to enter,
for it comes to us. It is where we are, and we enter every time we hear and trust
the word you speak, for you tell us who we are and for what we are made.
We are made by and for the Love Who Is … and who always
will be. We find ourselves when we are
found by you, when the Presence of Love in you penetrates our disbelieving hearts
and we discover that you want us near you, that you have always sought us, that
you are always near, that you are the voice of longing at the center of our
hearts.
Yes, it is true … you long for us ... and in us. Yours is the
longing we feel, the hunger to come home and rest in you … the Love who
long has sought us, the One who is searching love.
You came to find us … right where we are, living our
lives, wondering if the ache for that mysterious something more could ever be
fulfilled, inviting us to know the Love for which we hunger is exactly the Love
who seeks and finds us … where we are.
Praise to you Holy One. Praise to you for all the mysterious
ways you seek our hearts that we may fall in love with you, the Love who is our
source, our hope, our joy … our destiny.
Pr. David L. Miller
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