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Morning reverieTuesday, January 1, 2002
Numbers 6:24-26, Galatians 4:7, Luke 2:19
Galatians 4:7
So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.
This silent quiet time is such a luxury for me. Later today will be full of people visiting, football games, food and fun and excitement and noise. Chris plans to call us from the Sugar Bowl so we can listen to the crowd for a minute or two. So these moments of stillness to begin this morning are better than sleep. Listening...I realize the peace God gives me isn't really circumstantial, just as it was not with Mary. Good and bad events have passed; my reflection isn't ultimately about what has happened, or what will happen. Events are like the noise of a crowd, distracting me from the sound of God's footsteps, walking there right alongside me. Those footsteps, that Breathing Being so close to my ear, inside ... that comes closer to describing the peace God gives me. I'm struck by what I read this morning, written by James Krings: For many of us, 2002 will not be a year of comfort, ease or leisure. We may not have time to ponder things, to quietly turn them over in our minds, to peacefully discover the treasures. As it did for Mary, life will come at us, grip us, grab us, move us. Can we, like her, hold everything, every moment, in our hearts, believing that, in time, each will be treasured? I hope you have a moment of quiet today, to treasure the One walking with you. Lord God, grant us thy peace. |
Our dog Bear and I walked around the block this morning, delivering papers as the sun came up. No cars, no people, just a few other barking dogs, very cold and very quiet.