Friday, July 27, 2007

Today’s text

3 John 1:15

“Peace to you. The friends send you their greetings. Greet the friends there, each by name.”

Prayer

We are to each other what you are to us, friend. Captured in the encompassing embrace of your all-possessing love, we are yours, sharing in your eternal triune joy, basking in the delight that is your good pleasure to shower upon your beloved, upon me.

You are dearest and truest Friend, revealing and pouring out your love in our brother Jesus. You show us your joy, your divine hunger that we should know you full, the length and breadth, height and depth of all you are, and you are love, top to bottom, now and tomorrow, uncreated and unceasing, unimaginable wonder.

Your friendship joins us with all you embrace in your impossible immensity. Joined, we are, with those we know well or not all, those sitting beside us or a world away in places we shall never see, those dear and those we prefer to avoid.

You join us in your holy friendship where we taste and enjoy you in every shared smile or burden, every common kindness, every knowing glace, in common work and hope. All of it a sacrament of holy friendship in which we know, finally, the Loving Mystery we have always wanted. You.

So let us greet and care for each other, whether near or far, sharing in your divine friendship, knowing you in the sacrament of common words, work and life, speaking that truth you hunger for us to share, “Peace.” Amen.

Pr. David L. Miller