2023-05-21 A Meditation on Energies

“Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”” (Mt 9:13 ESV)

Gaze straight ahead, high-wire walk, the yesteryear and tomorrow before us, until we reach what is new and profound, subtly hope-filled, perfectly depicted, unknowingly a landing zone for the stars and for each of us. To be reckoned New Creations. To be attributed Divine Value. Valor attributed and creativity, to be Owners and Personally Responsible for this our Heaven Sent walk. Our Heaven Sent Project. Our Heaven Sent momentary bliss, abiding near and quantifiably close to one another, to a lover or a friend, to a spouse or a colleague, to a boss and underling each: responsive, responsible, regard, reaction, reworded day’s blessing and day’s order. The times they are a-clamoring, a-calling, a-situating and Creating: calling and purpose, prize and destination, journey and civilized murmurs.

Then to don the divine outfit, garments of praise and garments of soldiers’ duty, soldiers’ uniform, soldiers’ necessity of camouflage and practical fighting items, stockpiled, generic, mass-produced. To arrive at a breathless, wind-cared-for, wind-swept Urgent call Forward: call to march, to balance-act, to get up to a little something if it is so contemporary and in mode, the wind spelling the day’s exaction of each and every minor duty, each and every bold service, each and every Heard Command: Be My People. Be the post-depressed, the post-silenced, the post-quieted, the post-oppressed and post-diminished. Strong and seeking each day, dutiful mindset, find that number and that cohort, find that troupe and that cadre. Find the rock where God dwells and let go by the trusting wayside all else. Swept over grievances and petty disputes. Swept over pride and selfless responsibility: for no responsibility is a wrong responsibility except insofar as we panic and expend energies to be what none of us can totally be: God to one another, Provider, Fixer-Upper, lone soldier on a wide expanse and abyss.

Murmurings and disputations overheard, peace and sanctity for the heaven-dweller, who sees leap-frog of large matters and smaller personal interest from a God who indwells and Calls to each of us, out of the throng, out of the mass-market, into a Beginning of a New Creation, calm times together, calm willingness to bargain with what we would not have bargained over: we debate our issues in light of a bosom embrace and rest, a calm Certainty that, yes, this One we’ve found, have endeared ourselves to, have watched as He, as She, embraces and holds close, have resolved to go and do likewise, interpersonally spelling New Horizon of the high-wire walk, new status quo suddenly Inspired and Confident: these things too shall pass.

No man is so flawed as to be judged beyond hope. Each man or woman in our midst grows positively if plainly loved and personally invited. In plain love the awkward jibes and strange habits of even the stalwart sinner, do melt and show amenability: why, rather than hating our political and social enemies, do we not walk the boring and unflashy walk of Love? Why do we not take the servant-minded job of Assurance? Why not the soldier’s dutiful day’s labor of wise Future-Dwelling? Cleansing the litany of familiar self-identity that is based on past mistakes or questions? Merging the unlovable with what is healthsome and of good cheer? Being each of us prophets of what little insight is timely and apropos: do you know we’re here? Have you heard of us your kind neighbor? Is it a fine day just to check on how all things have gotten up to in latter days? In latter rain and latter Progress? Society progressing, changing, malleable yet also impermeable until that Prayer is answered, for a joint submission to the windswept plains and mountain summits of Action Underway, Things At Work, and we, strange heirs, recipients and those invited: to the high-wire walk; to the walk on water; to the plain care for souls reborn and rebuilt, New Creations each, and each of us soldiers along eclipsing back-and-forth, spiritual war, Cosmic Importance.