New Year's Day
1 Colossians 15-20
The Son is the visible
image of the invisible God, the first-born over all created beings. For in
him has come into existence everything that is in the heavens and on the earth,
the visible and the invisible world, the Thrones and the World Guides, the
Archai and the Creator Spirits. All things were created through him and for
him. He was there before all else, and everything coheres in him. And he
is the head of the body, and his body is the great community of congregations. He
is also the very beginning, and the
firstborn among those who rise from the dead, so that he may be the One who
goes before in all thing and everything. For in him all fullness of God was
pleased to dwell, to transform and to reconcile everything to himself,
laying the foundations of peace through the blood of his cross. Through him all beings on the earth as well as
in the heavenly spheres are to attain their goal.
Holy Nights
January 1, 2011
Colossians 15-20
We human beings exist within two worlds. There is the
visible one—we see it, hear it, perceive it with all of our senses. They act as
a kind of a mirror held up to the world. These sense perceptions are clear but
limited.
They are not tuned in to the other world, the invisible one,
the world behind the mirror. This is why it is so hard to believe in this
second world—out of sight, out of mind.
Yet this world not seen is a world of fullness. It is the
world of the beginnings of things. It is the world of great angelic beings, who
work endlessly to bring creation to its goal. It is the world of Christ, the
Son of the Father of Lights. Christ was a first—the first born of His father,
and the first born from the realm of death. He is himself the beginning of a
new creation, the beginning and the goal.
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| Brian Jeckel |
By filling the world with his invisible love, Christ makes
it possible for us to be in community. Though ‘blind’, we can feel our way
along strands of love with which He binds the world together. Though deaf, we
can sense the vibrations that give us direction. He makes it possible for us to
be people of good will, a will devoted to light, to life, to love. He makes it
possible for us, not just to be, to
exist, but also to become, to evolve
and transform. He gives us ever new beginnings, so that one day, we will grow
eyes to see the invisible, hear the inaudible.
A poet said,
Because we are imperfect and love
so
Deeply we will never have enough
days,
We need the gift of starting over,
beginning
Again: just this constant good,
this
Saving hope.[1]
[1]
Nancy Shaffer, Instructions in Joy
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