Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Worship: Noon, soup meal follows; 7 pm, soup meal at 6 pm.

Reading: Isaiah 55:1-9

Isaiah 55:9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, says the Lord.”

St. Augustine wrote:  “If you think you understand, it isn’t God.”  The Lakota word for God – Wakan Tanka – often translated “Great Spirit”, actually means “Great Mystery”.  This passage in Isaiah reminds us that we cannot know the mind of God, no matter how much our age may take pride in having so much knowledge and in providing so many answers.  God is simply not name-able,  not contain-able, not know-able, not tame-able, not package-able, no matter how much our present Christian culture may try to do so.  God is spirit.  God is mystery.  God’s thoughts are higher than ours.  God’s ways are higher than ours.  Thanks be to God.

O God, fountain of life, eagerly we seek you, our souls thirst for you.  May we walk fearlessly in this gift of daily life.  Amen

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