2022-12-16 A Meditation on Breaking Dawn

“We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.” (Jn 9:4 ESV)

Breaking dawn finds us in prayer, searching and wondering what is the God-honoring recall or mode of mind; we seek a dichotomy between the Gospel and Mammon; we wish to choose knowledgeably.

But more than that we wish to know our own hearts are not pent up in “fixing” yesterday’s dilemma. This was the dilemma we fussed over and maybe pointed fingers over, that made us wonder if we hadn’t entered a kind of fog of automatic deeds. Still, in the fog, the automatic deeds we knew to proceed from a clean heart, so we feared not. But it was a trial, and it causes us to wonder: we see how Man wanders as though sleep-walking, never in total “awareness” of his or her mental situation. We see that we can go on a streak that is based on a blame game. We see that we can be solipsistic, only considering ourselves. We see that standard mind, medium of thought, simple coherence, is again ours this morn. This breaking dawn.

Therefore we leave all on the altar of the Lord, and look ahead, knowing that He has a use for us this day. He has a way ultimately, in a blink of an eye, in a healing moment, to resurrect any problem we had put to rest in Him, and to announce it Resolved. He resolves. He has a knack for healing, with a patience and thoughtfulness unfamiliar to us.

That is, our own minds sometimes lack the patience simply to address the deeper psychology of a matter. They forget that any coming alongside, any identification with our situation, is a deep message of love that echoes in our cavernous hearts. So, the picture of a good father’s instruction, to heal the one with a broken family relationship. The gentle approval of a mother, to heal the criticism and disappointments of a family relationship. The greeting from afar of a joyous brother or sister in sibling reunion, to heal the divided family relationship.