Scripture
Send forth your light and your truth—let them guide me, let them
bring me to your holy mountain, to your dwelling place.—Psalm
43:3 The Inclusive Psalms
Reflection
As we continue preparing for World Conference and move through the
Lenten season, the light we seek is part of the journey of discernment. It
is God’s light that helps transform our finite understandings and limited
experience into revelation—God’s revealment.
The Community of Christ believes that the Sacred Story is not finished
yet. There are chapters yet to be written, and we are invited to let
ourselves become part of that process. From the time of the first
followers of Jesus through the long centuries until today, the meaning of
God’s revelation in Jesus Christ has been continuously unfolding. Hence we
speak of continuing revelation. Wherever God’s activity is
faithfully proclaimed and received, people begin to see themselves
differently: as connected with all creation, as those who are loved,
forgiven, and called to play their own small but vital part in the Sacred
Story.—Anthony Chvala-Smith, Understanding the Way:
Exploring Our Christian Faith, 15.
Action
Light a candle and consider the flame. Think of a time when God’s
light (God’s revealment) changed your life. Based on this recollection,
how might you discern God’s involvement in your life today? How do you
“fit” into the continuing revelation of the sacred story?
Hold your hands over the flame and feel the warmth (use caution!). Draw
the warmth toward your body with a gesture of blessing. Pray for God’s
light to shine on you in the days ahead and to guide you into deeper
relationship with the Divine.
Prayer
Fountain of all revelation, grant us thy life-giving power;
Without thee no sure salvation will deliver us this hour.
May no veil of our tradition mask the light that comes from thee!
Let not pride nor low ambition waste the strength that sets us free.
God our rock of revelation, we would build our lives on thee;
For without thy sure foundation none can find stability.
We will order not thy wisdom to some cherished form or mold,
But will search for truths now hidden as we live by those we hold.
—Deam Ferris, Hymns of the Saints, 298.
Amen. |
