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Psalm 34:8
O taste and see that the Lord is
good;
happy are those who take refuge in him.’
happy are those who take refuge in him.’
Taste and see
I see her walk … slowly across the room, and I wonder: Are the suffering
happy, O Lord? How can they know your goodness when treatment is worse than the
disease and their weary hearts fail within?
Where is your goodness then? How can she taste and see? How can any of us
rise above the weight of life and struggle that drags us down?
Seeing her, I feel the leaden weight of flightless souls, wondering what
to do or say to re-ignite the fire in their eyes and lift their souls to
flight. And I have nothing. No words to lift the weary. The weight is too
great.
Yet, I know … even this is for your glory. Every loss and struggle is the
stage on which you make miracles, breathing life and joy into those laden with
life.
“God is good all the time, I tell her and pause. “And that’s good news,”
I quickly add, “because the news is not good all the time.”
But you are, Loving One. You are.
And just then the tear on her cheek sings the hope Love is in our hearts.
And I see. I see the healing Love brings, the joy that comes when we hold each
other in struggle and sorrow. For a moment our eyes hold each other, knowing Love
lives even on days when our hearts cannot take wing.
You live, Holy One. You live in us. You live among us. You live in our
mutual knowing and unity. You live, and the Life you are in us is the Love we
taste and know in the freedom of beautiful days and when tears are our only
language.
You—the Love you are within and among us--lift earthbound hearts high to
kiss the sky and breathe the sweet air of this good earth, filling us with the
deathless hope that tastes and knows the goodness you are … always.
Taste and see.
Pr. David L. Miller
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