Turning nothingness into something wonderful.
Gabrielle Dean
“Part of what we celebrate and enact today on this feast of baptism, is that God has enveloped us into the very life of the divine. God immerses creation and humanity into God’s own life, and something mysterious and wondrous is going on in us at the most fundamental level of our being.
We are filled with God. We are filled with divine life and light. Whenever we see something and recognize it to be alive, wonderful, beautiful, true, good, lovely or lovable, it is the divine energy in the other connecting with the divine energy in us that creates connection and awareness. That is life in the Spirit.
God working anonymously and from the inside to vivify all creation into a profound relationship of love. Turning nothingness into something wonderful. Every time we are aware, the heavens are torn apart and the Spirit descends upon us with beloved pleasure.”
Adapted from a sermon by Rev. Lowell E. Grisham, rector emeritus of St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Gabrielle Dean
This is from a sermon about the baptism of Jesus, but as this preacher has said elsewhere, “Every day is a new born baby”, so I thought, everyday is a day of baptism when we can know ourselves as beloved, every day is a day of creation when God turns nothingness into something wonderful.
“Part of what we celebrate and enact today on this feast of baptism, is that God has enveloped us into the very life of the divine. God immerses creation and humanity into God’s own life, and something mysterious and wondrous is going on in us at the most fundamental level of our being.
We are filled with God. We are filled with divine life and light. Whenever we see something and recognize it to be alive, wonderful, beautiful, true, good, lovely or lovable, it is the divine energy in the other connecting with the divine energy in us that creates connection and awareness. That is life in the Spirit.
God working anonymously and from the inside to vivify all creation into a profound relationship of love. Turning nothingness into something wonderful. Every time we are aware, the heavens are torn apart and the Spirit descends upon us with beloved pleasure.”
Adapted from a sermon by Rev. Lowell E. Grisham, rector emeritus of St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, Fayetteville, Arkansas
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