Thursday, 27 January 2022
“For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. ”
~ Corinthians 12:13 ~
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
With the freshness of this day and the quiet of waking, be quiet with yourself and God. Ask God to grant you a journey of imagination. Spend a moment thinking about the year that is unravelling. How would you like it to look? How do would you like to feel this year? Is there a particular word that comes to mind? Imagine who the people are that will be witness to these days ahead?
Spend some time finishing these questions:
Which gifts will I use to nurture and sustain my community?
What do I need to let go of this year?
Who are the people that will journey closely with me this year?
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God of all people,
Grant me patience and humility
to be still at this moment,
to discover and recover that which has passed.
That I may know and understand your presence
and take this knowledge into the unknown
of what is to come.
Amen.
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Reflection prepared by Abigail Dawson
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