Today we are invited to imagine the impossible. We are invited to abandon our normal way of perceiving and look through grace-filled eyes. We are asked to imagine feeble hands strong, blind eyes filled with vision, and arid desert in bloom. We are asked to imagine fear withered away.
But God’s vision for creation will not emerge without our participation. Ramakrishna once said: “The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.” This is what the friends of the paralyzed man do in the gospel story of Luke 5:18-25. They raise the sail and are swept along in a movement of grace that changes everything about who they are in God and who God is in them. Surprisingly, they learn that every moment of grace is a movement of reconciliation. To forgive and be forgiven is to be reconciled, to return to the unity that is God’s vision and our hope.
The Wild Reed’s 2024 Advent series:
• Held in the Presence of God
• The Act of Surrender
• The Journey Home
The Wild Reed’s 2023 Advent series:
• Awakening
• An Extraordinary, Precious Opportunity
• The Task at Hand
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Advent Questions for These Times of Challenge and Change
• A Threshold Season
• A New Beginning
• Advent: Renewing Our Connection to the Sacred
• Advent: The Season of Blessed Paradox
• An Advent Prayer
• Advent: A “ChristoPagan” Perspective
• Guidelines for the Advent of a Universal Mysticism: An Introduction | Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
• Active Waiting: A Radical Attitude Toward Life
• As the Last Walls Dissolve . . . Everything Is Possible
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Judy Cannato
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Joyce Rupp
Image: Michael J. Bayly.
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