Isaiah 65:1-9
Proper 7 (12) - Year C
Isaiah 65:1-9 or 1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a
We do feel alone. We are without our servants, our identifiers. We are no better than our ancestors.
At the end, though, we can still set out from where we are. We can still anoint the next generation -- blessed be they.
Descendants and inheritors will be blessed by the old wine of their day which is still too new in our day.
So we are fortified to set out again; to set out from where we are. Blessed be the journey, even the journey of running away from any Jezebel and finding only the hope of the next generation.
http://www.kairoscomotion.org/lectionary/2004/june2004.html
Isaiah 65:1-9 or 1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a
"As the wine is found in the cluster", so is peace present in our current situation.
When ready to lie down and give it up, we awake to pancakes and coffee. Having gathered our strength for yet another forty days of questing we go on to find a sheer silence in the cacophony of our current situation.
Potential abounds, but it takes imagination and diligence to work at it. If G*D is ready to be found by those who do not seek and continues to invest in being present, so we are ready to find those invisible to us and reenter the fray of life.
[Note: The 1 Kings passage needs to go on to verse 18 where we hear of 70x100 more compatriots we are in solidarity with to change the world (current situation).]
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do not destroy
there is blessing
in the midst
of subsets
of creation
from a little grape
dandelions and honey
intoxicating spirits
warm and energize
new creation
from a little Jacob
Leah and Rachel
inheritors of mountains
trick and treat
old creation
from a little you
G*Ds and Neighbors
cave dwellers
quiet and charge
any reality