Flapping Like a Fish
Warm spring days make me think of summer vacations spent with my grandparents. One of the gifts they gave me was the gift of a sense of place. They gave my heart two homes: here and there. ‘Here’ is the green of Kentucky in the spring. ‘There’ is the kingdom of God: “sweeping the world with love and power so that human beings, each made in God's image and each one loved deeply, may relax in the knowledge that God is in control.” [1] The tension of holding here and there together in one place, in one heart, is where it seems to get complicated. I practice Lectionary Lectio Divina. I use the daily readings from the Anglican Church of North America’s (ACNA) Book of Common Prayer – four readings from across the scriptures. I try to hold them up as a mirror or a flashlight pointing toward my life’s realities and my internal thoughts, feelings, prides and shames. It is the way I know to have Holy Love get more than a cursory say in this life I have been gifted. It’s ...