Psalm 34:1-10, 22
"All Saints" - Year A
Hear again this song of blessing for deliverance from trouble. Saints are able to look beyond a current difficulty to a blessing yet to come. Saints are thus able to experience dayenu and l’chaim amid any suffering, not beyond it.
When we have tasted a feast before it is set before us, we can claim our whole being (mouth, tongue, lips, eyes, ears, face, bones) knows more than a moment. This makes a difference in the way we engage others. It makes a difference in how we are experienced by others.
The poles of response by others runs from adoring fans waiting for our next pearl of wisdom to deadly enemies for bringing them a choice in their behavior. Both of these run a danger of our being defined from the outside. Saints have a gift to humbly wait with G*D to see what will develop next.
Since troubles are so universal, we have plenty of opportunity to practice encouraging others to engage the saint within them and to be encouraged by others to engage ourselves as saint.
When connecting with our internal saint we sense a cloud of witnesses of those who have participated in their own journey of seeming mad in the face of their culture’s norms and fears. We are welcomed to dive deeper into life and have a choice to continue onward or to return to the safety of everyday existence.
May we be proud of the saints we have known and may others eventually be proud of having known as much of the saint we are becoming as they can grasp.
When we have tasted a feast before it is set before us, we can claim our whole being (mouth, tongue, lips, eyes, ears, face, bones) knows more than a moment. This makes a difference in the way we engage others. It makes a difference in how we are experienced by others.
As found in Wrestling Year A: Connecting Sunday Readings with Lived Experience
A song of blessing for deliverance from trouble. Saints are able to look beyond a current difficulty to a blessing yet to come. Saints are thus able to experience dayenu and l'chaim amid any suffering, not beyond it.
When we have tasted a feast before it is set before us, we can claim our whole being (mouth, tongue, lips, eyes, ears, face, bones) knows more than a moment. This makes a difference in the way we engage others. It makes a difference in how we are experienced by others.
The poles of response by others runs from adoring fans waiting for our next pearl of wisdom to deadly enemies for bringing them a choice in their behavior. Both of these run the danger of our being defined from the outside. Saints have a gift to humbly wait with G*D to see what will develop next.
Since troubles are so universal, we have plenty of opportunity to practice encouraging others to engage the saint within them and to be encouraged by others to engage ourselves as saint.
When connecting with our internal saint we sense a cloud of witnesses of those who have participated in their own journey of seeming mad in the face of their cultures norms and fears. We are welcomed to dive deeper into life and have a choice to continue onward or to return to the safety of everyday existence.
May we be proud of the saints we have known and may others eventually be proud of having known as much of the saint we are becoming as they can grasp.