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Matthew 5:43-45, 48
‘You have heard that it was said, “You shall
love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who
persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he
makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous
and on the unrighteous…. Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Imitating
the inimitable
Embrace today. Open your heart, welcome the day and
everything it brings.
The Holy One embraces every moment, every person,
every event, even those events where evil seems triumphant, wreaking havoc on
the goodness of life and creation. Nothing is left out. God is wholehearted,
the Love who surrounds every moment of life, every life that is and every
molecule of creation.
I sit in quiet on my morning bench by Feather Sound,
coffee in hand, eyes on the reeds and cattails at water’s edge. And I breathe,
awakening a Love that lives within, a Love for everything that is and which evaporates
every anxiety and stills every desire.
In the moment, awareness arises that this Love surrounds
and encompasses the whole of … everything,
all that is. Everything is inside God. I see and know it with eyes of the
heart, a gift of graced awareness.
And for a moment, I, too, am wholehearted, perfect as
the heavenly Father is perfect, loving the world … and myself … despite the multitude
of imperfections in both, imitating the inimitable.
Many things happen to us and in our fractured world that
are not appointed by God nor do they come from God. Evil exists, and all of us resist
the Love that is the energy of God that holds the world together.
But even evil moments happen inside God, inside the
Encompassing Presence who holds all things and who seeks to be known in all
things.
So embrace today, wholeheartedly, whatever comes. This
is another day lived inside a Love more immense than you can imagine.
Pr.
David L. Miller
