We continue with how we enter the day as people who contemplate the Reign of God.
In any case, we should always seek to conform to the logos or truth of the duty before us, the work to be done, or our own God-given nature. Contemplative obedience and abandonment to the will of God can never mean a cultivated indifference to the natural values implanted by God in human life and work. Insensitivity must not be confused with detachment. The contemplative must certainly be detached, but s/he can never allow her/himself to become insensible to the true human values, whether in society, in other people or in one's self. If s/he does so, then her/his contemplations stands condemned as vitiated in its very root.
In contemplation, we move through the day with eyes wide open and hearts in tune with the Reign of God. Therefore, we are always sensitive to what the prevailing winds of the day are blowing by us. There is never any detachment for those who contemplate God's Reign and are aware of the ongoing presence of God moving through us and around us. When we are God's beloved...when we are the image of God, then all that runs contrary to this Reign of God grabs our attention and we are "by nature" drawn into the care and repair of all things. This gives us the ability to be sensitive to life that is beyond my "own little words and needs" because I am not my own little world. I am a part of the wholeness of God's Reign that is, even now, breaking in.
Connection: So...we listen...we watch...we act...we love...we remember...we begin again and again to take note of our place before God and before one another.
As your Reign comes upon us, O God, open up our eyes to see how it is coming...open our hands so we can greet it as it comes in the shape of others...open our lips with words of hopefulness and kindness...open our ears that we may hear others bring your Word before us...open our hearts that transformation may begin even as we take the next breath of our lives. Amen.
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