October 9, 2013

Today’s text
 

Colossians 1:26-27

The mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Losing and finding

We lose our lives in the midst

 of living, needing to find

again the self that life

and troubles take, the soul

that judging steals,

leaving only a shell.

I am me, we are ourselves

Only in you, when we know

ourselves in the Love you are,

the Love that is always and

holds everywhere.

We need go looking, not for

ourselves, but for places

and people where Loving Mystery

is most real, speaking heart-to-

heart the life that living steals,

CPR for lost and dieing souls.

There, in that Love, we find

again the who we have lost; the

face truly ours, our joy and beauty

hidden in the Love that is and

is always.

You are Love who awakens

us to ourselves, giving us

back to ourselves when we get

lost and find no place where we

can be we, what we are.

But you are never lost, always

near, always within, deepest

core of our self, unfading beauty

hidden within, waiting to be

awakened by the kiss of

Mystery from your Loving

Nearness speaking and singing

through voices and hearts, tree

leaves and red moons, each a

verse in the great song of Love

you are.

Awaken again, Loving Mystery,

the self we are that your beauty

and joy might stain our cheeks

and lift our praise for you who

are Love and … ever here.

Pr. David L. Miller