5th August Trinity 2007, Christ Light

5th Trinity August

Luke 18, 35-43

It happened as he approached Jericho: a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging. Hearing the crowd going by, he wanted to know what was happening, and they told him Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. He cried out in a loud voice: “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Those leading the way threatened him and wanted him to be quiet. But he cried all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Jesus stopped and had him led to him. And Jesus said to him, “What do you want that I should do for you?”

He said to him, “Lord, that I may look up and see again.”

And Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight. Through your faith and your trust, the power for healing has been awakened in you.” ( your faith has healed you)

In that moment his eyes were opened. He followed Him and thus revealed the working of the divine within the human being--and all who saw it praised God.

5^th August Trinity

August 19, 2007

Luke 18: 35 – 43

  

In deep darkness, the world seems to shrink down to a few feet. At dawn the world bursts open and is recreated for us. Pictures begin fill the air and spring to life. The light re-creates the world and heals our separation from the world and from the light itself.

 

Christ, the Sun God, came to shed His light, to create His light in the darkness of earth existence. He came to bring His creative light to human beings, for we had all become blinded by earthly darkness. But fortunately we could still hear.

The blind man near Jericho hears the crowd of those around Christ. He inquires and then cries out. Despite all resistance, he connects himself with the Light, puts himself at the mercy of the Light that heals, the light that elevates, the light that reveals. His directed will, his trust and his faith, working in the Light, bring about the healing of his separation from the world. For him Dawn breaks; he can look up and see – Christ, the Sun God, walking, enlightening, and healing here on earth.     

The seasonal prayer speaks of the Healing God who illuminates the world. This Spirit created the world in all its order, form and beauty. We pray that we may see the evidence of this spirit in the world. We pray that we may grasp the Healing Spirit and let it work within ourselves, illuminating what and how we see. We pray that the Spirit Light enlighten what we know. Aware that we are subject to earthly darkness, we pray that the Light of Spirit approach us, shining in the world, to shine on us, in us, out of us, in all our soul’s ways.

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