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Today’s text
“A disciple is not
above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; it is enough for the disciple
to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the
master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his
household! … Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul;
rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Reflection
It is the soul that is to be preserved above all else, the
depth of heart where we know (but so often forget) who we are.
We are souls, expressions of God, created that the Loving
Mystery might live in flesh and blood, sharing the divine fullness and carrying
out God’s divine purpose.
Our lives are words of Love, the Love who is God, each of us
an individual word of the One who is Love.
We are not what others say of us. We are not their judgments
nor even their praise. We are not what we think of ourselves, sometimes feeling
good about what we have done, other times accusing ourselves for shortcomings
and failures.
Nor are we are not our accomplishments, what we have earned
or won, which is a common American and Western distortion of our identity, one
that fuels an obsession for winning and being number one lest we feel
diminished and less than others.
This reveals our anxiety that we are merely human, just like
everyone else.
We are, but there is no merely
about us.
For we each are the embodied breath of the Living One, words
of the Loving One born into the time and space that we might know … the joyous
wonder of the Love who speaks us--and live from depths of soul, knowing who we
are.
You are not what others say. You are not even what you say
about yourself. You are souls from the Soul of all life.
Remember who you are.
Pr. David L. Miller
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