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The
kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his
son. He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding
banquet, but they would not come.
(Matthew 22:2-3)
The gentle cool
of morning deposits a dewy sheen on the yard and the balcony chairs I must wipe
down before sitting to pray. Wet crystals glisten on leaves in the filtered light,
falling to earth as the late August sun rises behind the locust trees lining
the street.
Hidden among
the branches, a song bird welcomes the day as squirrels scamper around the bushes,
seeking burial places for winter provisions. Watching from my perch, a southern
breeze embraces me and all I see.
‘The world and time are the dance of the Lord in
the emptiness,’ Thomas Merton wrote. It’s easy to hear God’s music on a morning
like this.
Stop and
listen for a moment, let silence sweep every word from your heart and lips, and
your soul may feel the joyful wedding of heaven and earth, as the Loving
Mystery marries all creation, pouring the beauty of the divine heart into time
and space and taking us as His beloved, never to be parted.
Every love we
ever experience participates in the marriage of heaven and earth, allowing us
to taste the sweet beauty of heaven amid all that would deny that God has fashioned
us and all creation for one purpose—that God might complete the incarnation of divine
love in the Son of God, joining the divine heart with our own that we may be one
with Him, joined heart-to-heart with Loving Beauty who made us for Himself.
Entering the
day, every day, the choice is ours. Shall we see or not?
Can our eyes
open to the wonder that every good and gracious thing we shall ever know, taste
and feel is the grace of the Mystery who has joined his divine heart with creation
in a marriage that has no end, only completion?
Can we see
that the goodness that delights our eyes and touches our hearts is the incarnation
of heaven in time and space?
Can we hear
Love’s gentle whisper in the morning breeze of a new day given? Can we look at
Jesus and see the beauty we long to see in every face, including our own?
David L. Miller
