Dear All of Us,
You know what?
If I were preaching these days,
I'd hurry up and give
a happy little sermon
- Come on now!
I'm short and I'm happy.
My sermons can be too! -
a happy, little sermon about how
God just can't sit still.
Yep, God is flat out
turned on and up,
too excited
to call a time out,
to sit it out a bit
and chill.
God's having a ball.
We call it creation.
It never stops.
It just gets better and better.
It's full torque, high frequency,
a blessed blast.
God keeps finding wonderful ways
to share
Who and How God is.
Speaking of
"is"
please pardon
a touch of theology.
It's this.
God is "IS" ness Itself
(ex -"IS"- tense)
and
God "is" sharing it
widely, wildly, joyously,
imaginatively, variously,
uniquely.
Every
person, place, planet,
proton, protein,
puppy to professional
ALL
"IS"
a presence and present
of the
LOVE and LIFE
GOODNESS
that
"IS"
GOD
On top of all these marvels
is the joy that God is no loner.
God wants company.
God wants us up front, in tight.
God wants us in on the
Swirl and Sway
of it all.
We are a presence of God
that presences God
and God's presents
to others.
God asks us
to pray/play it forward.
We've all got
varied and vigorous
gifts and graces
received from God
to lavishly give
to others as
God Gifts.
They make God
clear, immediate -
Presence and Present.
Everything about us
is in on it:
all our actions and reactions,
the way we walk and talk,
the way we cook and drive,
what we ware and
how we share,
how we listen and
how we respond,
how we bond and blend,
how we invest and divest,
how we react to privilege
how we react to pain,
how we enliven,
how we pause and
how we pray,
how we "all and everything."
We are invited to be a
Presence and Present
of God
"I live now not I,
but Christ lives in me."
Galatians 2:20
"Serve one another
with whatever gift
each of you has received."
1 Perer 4:10
Each of us is one of a kind.
God wants to shine out
from our centers
in all the hues and tones
of our God given uniqueness.
That will vary as we mature
and as our circumstances do.
There's a time to be out and about.
There's a time to be mellow mild.
A minor league metaphor:
We are like conduits
through which the electricity,
the Grace, the Energy,
the Goodness,
the Power of God pulsates
energizing, empowering,
enlightening.
If you can stand it,
one more minor league
metaphor, well ok,
a Little League one:
We let God be local -
a personalized
Presence and Present
through us.
In a word
-why didn't I think of this
in the first place?? -
wherever we are, however we are,
God is busy being beautiful,
being creative, a positive
presence and present
to that space.
God is a light that wants to shine
in us and through us
"I am the light of the world."
John 12:8
"You are the light of the world"
Matthew 5:14
Well, I'm not preaching these days,
but I sure am happy we could
Soul Huddle
just now
God's got lots to be and do
for us
and
through us -
a truly divine
Presence and Present
Love to us all
from here in
Washington, DC
John Frank
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A Spiritual Best Practice:
When we slow down,
Settle Center,
Soul Sense,
we survey the
people and places,
ways and wonders
by which God
presences and presents us.
We then do the same as we
Soul Sense
how God is present
and presents to others
through us.
We let warm gratitude
flood our Centers.
We praise Goodness.
We pray for a lover's
wide openness.
Let The Son shine!
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