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| My country's skies are bluer than the ocean--But other lands have sunlight too. Lloyd Stone and Georgia Harkness |
This one sky. On a day like today I can’t get enough of the
sky. On a day like this I am reminded of
the sky I share. On a day like today I
am overwhelmed by that thought.
I spend a lot of time looking at the sky. When I drive, when I walk my dog, in between
planting and weeding in the garden, and sometimes I just walk to the window and
look up.
What do you think about when you look up? I ask this with the assumption that like me
you too are drawn to the window. What is
the one thought, one wish, the one prayer that meets you at the window? I say one because I feel like we usually
carry one prayer that is the answer to all of our trouble—peace is mine. Illness, discourse, children, parents and our
world are basically wrapped in my desire for peace. Peace of mind, peace of
healing, peace of home and peace for the future.
Whenever we stand looking up at the sky we quite possible
stand in the footprints of some other soul, which looked up just as we do. We also stand alongside, another mother,
partner, child, friend, enemy some other –other.
Christ before the people
and advises them
“When someone gives you a hard time, respond
with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves,
your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to
warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the
nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus?
Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you
expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.”
Maybe
looking up to the sky feels overwhelming because we cannot deny that we are
called to be our best selves.
We
are not alone…no matter how easy it may be for us to live as if we are---we are
not alone. There are people just like us and those who are nothing like
us. But here is the thing---we share
this amazing sky—this amazing sky! This
has to mean something right? Something bigger than us is at work.
Christ
says this when we are about to lose ourselves by disconnecting from others—all
those “others”
48 “In a word, what I’m saying is, Grow up. You’re kingdom subjects. Now
live like it. Live out your God-created identity.
Live generously and
graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you.
There is a hymn called “This is my Song”—I have it here attached sung by the Indigo Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0OcZdzfOV8
