The New Day that began two years ago has had a long hiatus. The intervening years have brought many changes and settled me into long held places where there is familiarity and comfort. They have, as well, brought very big changes. I have retired from my years of work outside my home. I have embarked on being a single grandparent and mother and miss my partner in all of that. I have moved into my first home of my own.
This morning, the view from my home is of a brightening sky above the woods of the ravine that lie below me. The brook is fierce as it runs fast with a winter thaw. Its sound is much like the ocean around which I grew up as a child. And all this in a world where a quake and tsunami have invaded the morning of another nation so far away.
I thank my God for the goodness I have. I weep for the ash covered around this world.
Our instant world coming through our blue-screened televisions brings into our consciousness the fact that we share a planet full of beauty and terror and I wonder at the holding of the tensions of those two opposites.
On this morning I believe that only a Great God of the Universe can hold this task and I arch forward toward seeking the understanding of that with merely a glimpse of what that may mean. In my now older years, I am more and more content with questions, and the wait for the answers that will attend.
We approach the First Sunday of Lent 2011 with much to contemplate. We live in a churning world that needs us to incline our hearts and lives toward thoughtful compassion. This calls for bravery and we need Angels around us. On this coming First Sunday of Lent we hear and believe:
"He will command his angels concerning you
and with their hands they will support you,
lest you dash your foot against a stone.”
and with their hands they will support you,
lest you dash your foot against a stone.”
Lord, have mercy on us and hear our prayer.
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