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Today’s text
I appeal to you
therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies
as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual
worship.
Given away
Saturday afternoon I walked through the sanctuary, and my
heart filled with joy. I was beyond happy. I was overwhelmed with pleasure, the
pleasure of God.
The joy filling me was eternal, endless, without limit, and
it completed me.
I could not imagine then … or now … anything I would rather
do … or be … than to be in this place, speaking a word of the Love who refuses
to let us go.
“Thank you,” I said into the empty room where people would
soon gather. “Thank you for letting me do this.” This is my only prayer as I
bow at the table at the start and close of every liturgy.
I have no explanation for why I should feel this way or why
this should be the place that joy comes so fully. I only know I feel God’s
pleasure when I am here, when I speak and when the blessing and compassion of
God flow through me.
It is then that I am
truly alive, free … and me. And I know … I was born to be this vessel of
blessing. I was formed to know the joy of grace, the elevation of divine pleasure
filling and passing through me.
I do not think I am in any way special. It is the divine
destiny of every human soul to experience God’s pleasure filling them so that
they might surrender themselves to the labor of life they have been given … and
know the Love who made them, the Love for which they are intended.
The filling of divine pleasure comes as we surrender
ourselves in love to the Love we come to know in this life. And in our surrender,
we discover what it means to be alive, truly alive.
Pr. David L. Miller
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