Resurrection ... it’s a daily happening!
5:50 a.m. I am Dead to the World.
5:55 a.m. Radio calls me to enter Life.
The World of Non Being is cozy and undemanding.
I resist the Call.
News, issues, music ... beckon me to the real world.
But not strongly enough! How to get up, enter the day?
From beyond and within, faint at first and strengthening
the Life Force brings me into the day,
raises me up and out ... Circulation increases...
I think of Bergson’s Elan Vital - lively, dancing energy
Filling oneself, filling all things, all creation.
I hear the birds sing, wind in the trees, perhaps rain.
A mirage of people, plans, possibilities, hovers.
The Life Force, Elan Vital, energizing grace from beyond
fills me, causes me to embrace life and the challenges of the day.
Now ... out and about!
Resurrection! It’s a daily happening.
One goes forth as part of the resurrection community
in the world with the grace and power of Jesus Risen
embedded in one’s deepest spirit commissioning us
to make the kingdom present now...in the every day...
making the ordinary extraordinary!
Go away dark thoughts, negative impulses, destructive doubt!
Yes, I can with God’s help!
The prayer of Rupert before the Battle of Naseby:
‘O Lord, I shall be very busy this day.
If I forget thee, do not Thou forget me.’
Lilias Morrison
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