Daily reflections on the readings by Susan Palo Cherwien; Season of Lent, 2015, the Year of Mark.
Friday, February 20, 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015
Reading: Psalm 25:1-10
Antiphon:
"All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees." (Psalm 25:10)
The psalmist reminds us that there are many paths of God. But all of them exist within a reciprocal relationship: God's steadfast love and our response - a promise to live in the world as images of that love. This is the narrow way of Christ. Just as God self-limits power out of love for creation, so we self-limit our freedom out of love for God and all of God's creation. In Ursula LeGuin's fantasy book The Wizard of Earthsea, a young Ged, mage-in-training, learns of self-limitation:
The Master Summoner spoke softly and his eyes were somber as he looked at Ged. "You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a person's real power grows and their knowledge widens, ever the way they can follow grows narrower; until at last one chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what one must do…"
In Lent, as in life, we choose a narrow path of intention and discipline, exploring what it means to live in God's steadfast love.
Teach us, O God, in the way you would have us go. Amen
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