If 2020 has offered me one great insight, it’s that we like life to be fairly patterned and predictable. There is an expected order to things – a routine of daily and seasonal rituals that offer comfort and security.
Yet, I wonder, in our fast-paced, consumer-driven, and fairly comfortable lifestyles, how many of those routines help us to connect day by day with the deeper way of living called Christianity or discipleship or kingdom-living?
As we start a new series of conversations around the rhythms of grace which anchor us to God in the midst of daily-changing circumstances, let’s begin here:
In the beginning,
God …
in the beginning,
God created,
God created
the heavens and the earth.
God said,
“let there be”
and there was.
The ruach of God –
ruach,
ruach
ruach
ruach
ruach
ruach
hovering over the face of the deep
working in concert with the Word
to bring light and life and shape to the world;
<light a candle if you have one nearby>
to cradle us
in space and time –
between
sun and moon
and day and night
and light and dark
and sea and sky
and land and water
and ebb and flow
and life and death
and love
love
Love.
Love of the Father,
Love of the Son,
Love of the Holy Spirit.
Love said,
“let there be”
and there was.
And, in love, what was good –
together – became very good.
And six days of work
were punctuated by a day a rest
and a rhythm of life was set,
set by God
it was set by God …
in the beginning.
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