Monday, November 26, 2007

Today's text

Colossians 1:15-17

He [Christ] is the image of the unseen God, the first-born of all creation, for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth: everything visible and everything invisible, thrones, ruling forces, sovereignties, powers-all things were created through him and for him. He exists before all things and in him all things hold together

Prayer

Morning breaks the darkness. Daylight ends the little death of sleep, and here we are again in the midst of life, finding the wonder life in the midst of our mortal bodies.

As at the beginning, we spring from the nothingness of nonbeing into the morning of life, appearing in this particular moment of time for reasons beyond our knowing. Suspended by invisible threads of being, we are joined in an intricate web of being, connected … somehow … to all that it is in a vast fabric of life, moving in indiscernible patterns we sometimes affect but never control.

Instinctively, we turn our eyes to the impenetrable darkness out of which we have sprung, somehow knowing this great obscurity is our Source and the fountain of all life. But the dazzling darkness reflects all vision back upon itself.

Until … until we see you, blessed Christ. For you step from the invisibility we cannot penetrate to reveal the source of our soul and all the soul of all that is.

You are the face of the Impenetrable Darkness, O Christ. You are the first, before all that it is. All that is comes to be through you: all things, each person, each element of creation, each spoonful of matter, each living, growing greenness. Each bears the mark of you who are love. Each is an expression of your life, your beauty, your incorrigible creative joy. Each lives with the life you are. Each finds its place and purpose in the love from which all life springs.

For you are love and life, and in your love you choose to make good and beautiful beings come to life and grow. We don’t know why you should make us or makes us as we are. Except, you love life, and love always has reasons the mind cannot enter.

Pr. David L. Miller