Friday, July 3, 2015

Matthew 6:26-29

Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.

In the moment

Here and now

is the secret, this …

moment, this tree,

this squirrel, this

diamond blue sky,

this cardinal, brilliant

and red calling his

singular cry over

this patio here and now.

Eternal moments,

each … a wonder

never to come again

quite the same.

Each … followed

by another equally

unique, precious.

unrepeatable.

Each … to be received

with gratitude with

sure and certain hope

that fullness of heart

for which we long is

here and now, found

in savoring what is,

releasing what may be

lest the grace of this day,

of what is, be lost

in longing or fear

of what is not come.

And what is ... in each

moment is the place,

the only place, our hearts

find life, the filling

of body and soul,

the upsurge of air

and energy, wind

of life lifting us into

the ecstasy of knowing

truly the joy which is

and can be ours … only

in the moment, savoring

what is that the here

and now may fill us once

more with the love

that alone fills the empty

spaces with startled

gratitude for life and love

beyond expectation,

received fresh and new

as each dawn, a day

clothed in the Love

who is the hope of each

here and now.

Pr. David L. Miller