Monday, March 7, 2016
Tuesday March 8th
I love the first reading for today! Water is such a powerful symbol throughout the entire bible. I have found it easy to connect with faith and God through nature imagery. I think being raised in Wyoming and spending so many summers backpacking through the wilderness, as well as all the time spent at the cabin has helped to develop my sense of awareness of God through nature. Rivers in general become such a powerful symbol because the water is always flowing and changing, but I especially love that in today's reading the water flowing from the East becomes more pure as it enters the west. It becomes the life source for being. It isn't that way from the beginning, but becomes so overtime. We are not perfect but we are constantly called to move toward perfection. This is a calling that is answered throughout a lifetime. Some days the pull is more powerful than others. Somedays we stumble or even fall. But the invitation for growth and fulfillment is always present.
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I, too, love these readings. The first reading reminds me of Baptism by immersion. It also reminds me of the first time we hiked Outlaw Canyon and I saw and heard so much more water in the Powder River than I ever knew existed. Hearing the River was very powerful.
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We all need to be reached out to as unique and touched. We are not 'them' we are each a child of God and there is nothing like being recognized as such. I know that is one of the things I really like about my work, and I have heard priests say likewise about the confessional. It is unfortunate that they no longer have the freedom and gift of being able to reach out and touch; that gift has not been taken away from me. Touched is one of Tom's favorite ways of being appreciated and loved. How lucky for me to be reminded of this in this gospel today!