Morning light

Then Jesus called the crowd to him and said to them, ‘Listen and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.’ (Matthew 15:10-11)

Morning light

Early morning sunlight gilds the front room even through the tightly drawn blinds. The blinds, though white, glow, afire and gilt as bullion as the new day streams between the slats, flooding floor and walls, assaulting heavy eyes that are not yet ready to receive the gift.

The gift, of course, is this day. Ready or not, it comes from the Infinite Source of every new day, a Source we no more understand than we understand the mystery of our own existence.

For this, too, is a gift from that Secret Source who gives existence to that which is not: ex nihilo, out of nothing life comes, in the language of ancient theologians no one has yet improved upon.

My life, your life, the profusion of plants and animals I blithely pass during each walk through the woods, all of it exists even though once it was nothing, even though once there was … nothing.

Everything that is, including the imponderable mystery that I as a human soul should exist, all of it is simply given, existence to that which was not. I suppose this means that the nature of that Source we call God is to give, to share, to grant the privilege of being to that which otherwise would not be.

Gratitude is the only logical response, except for sharing, of course. Our nature is a gift of the One whose nature it is to give and share that life may abound. We are given life that we may share it. That is the message in the morning light.  

Anything less defiles the divine purpose inscribed on every human soul. So, today, let us live the lessons of the light. Perhaps we, too, may glow, alive and afire as the birth of this day.

Pr. David L. Miller