Meditation – March 23, 2009

Posted on Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Scripture: “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares he Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” Jeremiah 31:33-34

Prayer: Help me to know better what is written on my heart.

Response: Consider how you would be in the world, if you accepted these words of Jeremiah literally as they are meant. Suppose you accepted that your neighbor close, and those who live far from you, because I have written it on their hearts? Is that the divine spark that you talk of when far off you come to recognize a characteristic, a trait, a sparkle in someone that you have discovered earlier within you? Is it in that moment that you put aside fear and hesitancy to find common bond? And you don’t have to be far off in a less traveled land to make this discovery – you could be in a convenience store, a mall, or in the pew of a familiar house of worship.

What would it take to look boldly into your neighbor’s eyes and see recognition – recognition of a traveled soul on the path homebound? How much courage would it take to put aside the pride of knowing and acknowledge in your actions that your fellow traveler will know me from the least and humble to those who occupy positions of authority, to those who speak in foreign tongues and display cultures with which you are not familiar?

You all will know me – even those strangers. I have written my message of love on their hearts.

All for this morning.

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