01/12/2021

The riches that will be bestowed by the Lord, in the Isaiah reading, are to be given by the Lord to all peoples. To be given. Everything that we have and know is from God. Jesus, similarly, cures all and feeds all regardless of origin.

Life itself is a gift from God and I am the recipient. I am not the centre of everything. I am conscious of the World around me and that I have no power over the vastness that I see. Man is proud and can do many things with the matter of our universe. But even though we live together, when we come to death we are again as individual as the baby we were when first born.

Our God has experienced in his humility human birth and infantile helplessness  has enjoyed the love of a mother, the growing pains of youth, the support and fellowship of a community and  having come through the temptations of life even experienced the great lonelines which is the isolation of each of us in death.

Dear Lord let me never forget that it is your grace that provides life to my being and that all I need to do is keep my heart open to receive the care and love which is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.