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now, and all around us, too, in the very ordinary moments of our lives.
God, the spirit, is the insistent voice, the whispering one, which is singing to usˁ
trying to embrace us. Can we do better than those in the temple who wanted to
throw Jesus down the hill because he said true, but uncomfortable, things that
they did not like?
The stretching out for God can be hard and even painful. Maybe it˅s because we
don˅t use our interior ˈmusclesˉ enough. It can be challenging being accepting,
loving, non-judgmental and even contemplative regularly. However, it can be
done. We know, and have heard many say, that we should seek God in all we
see. The act of doing this will not only bring us greater internal peace and add to
the good of the world, but it also will help turn our faces toward God.
If that great longing and emptiness, so gorgeously evoked for us in today˅s
psalm, is to be filled only by finding the face of God, then we have many chances
each hour in our everyday journey to make tiny movements toward that divine re-
ality. We need not continue to be afraid of the spiritual discomfort or the
prophet˅s words. God˅s loving acceptance of usˁand desire for usˁwill help us
find the way.
Prayer
Glorious God, may we begin this day as if it were our first; may we register deep
within our hearts the beauty that is around us. May another amethyst and gold
sunset not go down without us seeing your work, ˈyour face,ˉ in front of us. May
we come one step closer to a never-ending embrace with you. Amen.
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Judith Hamilton-Márquez,
RCIA Dismissal Ministry