Finding
Heart
“Listen
to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom
and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch,
taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in
the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is
grace.”
Frederick
Buechner (Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation)
I
am thinking this morning of the terrified and brokenhearted people
of France, who lost loved ones yesterday in a terrorist attack. Our
world feels the agony of your loss. We also feel the weight of the
millions of refugees fleeing war, who have washed up on European
shores. The sadness and outrage of all of it is close to
overwhelming. These are most difficult days.
We
must find our way past the anger and the desire for immediate retribution
to the larger and deeper heart of despair that is driving the unrest
of our time. From the fury on American college campuses, to the black
flags of revolution in the Middle East, human beings have resorted to
rage and murder to express their hopelessness with life as usual.
Inequity is the root cause of anarchy.
In
the days ahead, as the latest of these desperate measures unfolds,
let each of us, no matter where in the world we are, hold one another
in our hearts and pray for answers. Let us pray also for leaders who
are large enough to move beyond self-interest, and embrace the whole
world as one people. Somewhere, in the midst of all this chaos, is
the mystery of life's longing for itself, and the hidden heart of the
human race seeking freedom.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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