Dear All of Us,
Hope all goes well there.
Thank God it does here.
May it be so everywhere.
Speaking of God,
and that quite Frankly,
I am well aware that
I am not all that bright,
yet I am very much a
REFLECTION
of
GOD'S
GOODNESS
and
SOMETIMES/WAYS
SADLY NOT SO
We all are.
It's a dimension of our
spiritual lives that
we don't see so well,
but others sure do.
So let's take a look little.
Well, a little "see/say" first.
Folk See/Say:
"You are the only Bible
that lots of people
will ever read."
That's See/Say/Sure.
So is this.
We reflect God,
know it or not,
want to or not,
happy to our not.
Who we are,
how we are,
what we do,
what we don't do,
reflects
God's Goodness
or
Our Disfigurement
of
It
We didn't engineer
this set up.
God did:
"God spoke:
'Let us make
human beings
in our own image,
make them
reflecting
our nature.'"
Genesis 1:26
The Message
We are created
in the image and
likeness of God.
We share a smidgen
of
God's DNA.
We are family.
And it shows or fails to.
"...it is no longer
I who live,
but Christ
who lives in me.
Galatians 2:20
And it shows or fails to.
It's all free gift.
We accept.
We decline.
Most of us do
lots of both
in the course
of a day.
I sad sure do!
An unarticulated
yet quaveringly real
question
we all have
of each other
is
"What's it all about, Alfie?"
- what's the very meaning
of our existence -
What we're all about
reflects response
because it's all a
REFLECTION
of
GOD GOODNESS
or
GOD GOODNESS
DISFIGURED
Now we needn't get into
a crazy tight fright here.
We don't have to
come up with
a goodness
to reflect.
God takes care of that.
What's up to us
is giving clear channel
to the current,
the surge, of
God's Goodness
in and through us.
It all sort of
comes down to this.
We are a
walking/talking/doing
REFLECTION
of
the life we are,
or refuse to be,
God accepting,
God rejecting,
Reality based,
Illusion laced.
We see it in public figures -
Mother Theresa
Adolf Hitler
We see it close up
and in person.
For me, happily
My Mother and my Wife,
So sadly for me,
the nasty drunk pastor
of my internship
many years ago.
Right here let's
pause in prayer,
recalling our experience
of public and private people
and how they did or didn't
give us a
REFLECTION
of
GOD GOODNESS
What were/are the effects?
Now let's take a wide eyed look
in the mirror of Sheer Truth
and see what we see or don't
about ourselves,
about how
our living
reflects God
or fails to.
As far as we can see,
what were/are the results
for others?
In every and all
REFLECT WE DO!!
Our spiritual lives are
an invitation to LIGHT up
and let God Goodness shine
personal and practical in us.
God provides the current.
We control the Light switch.
All of this comes
more and more
into focus for me
as my body eyes dim
with old age
and my Soul Sees
ever better and brighter.
I find myself trying to
"...say only
the good things
people need to know."
Paraphrase of
Ephesians 4:29
I try to relax and let
God be and do
as God wills
through my
body,
personality,
life style,
actions,
reactions,
occupations,
relationships.
In all honestly
it is sometimes a sad,
dark, damaged, disfigured
image of God reflected.
I get ticked.
I get selfish.
At eighty-three
I still have a lot
of growing up to do.
Sometimes it is
clear/dear/de-Light-full.
I give.
I accept.
I forgive.
I share.
Those are the times
I tell my ego to go
to hell and I drive it
to the station!!
That's when I let God
flow/shine in me.
So here's a surprise.
I set out today to share
a collection of reflections
from
END NOTES
the legacy piece
I'm working on these days.
And look what happened!
It turned out way differently.
I pray it turned out to be
at least a little bit of a
REFLECTION
of
GOD'S
GOODNESS
******
PS:
I'll have a try at
Reflections
from
END NOTES
soon and see
what happens.
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Rich Rohr
recently shared:
"If contemplation
means anything,
it means we can
'...safeguard that
little piece
of You, God,
in ourselves'
as Etty Hillesum
describes it."
Daily Meditation
September 14, 2023
Our share in God's DNA.
That's quite something
to reflect on
and
to reflect.
So Dear Ones,
what do we say?
Let's throw
the switch of
"YES"
to
God's Light
deep in us.
It'll be just
"brilliant"
Looking forward
to our sharing
next week.
Love to all,
John Frank
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