This week: God as creative hospitality. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com]This is how our day is meant to begin - wide open and willing to engage all and
be with any and all. That is not easy. God as creative hospitality is therefore
always present with us. Often I use the word 'tickle' for how God's Spirit awakens
us and turns our heads. There is for me also a nudge. It is that push or that pull
that takes me over the edge into that which I had not planned to go. God as creative
hospitality is that nudge. This is the never-ending moment in which we are allowed
and called to be gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast
love. Our God nudges us into that realm. I find that to be amazing. I also find
that to be a bit frightening. If I become open - if I bend and bow and consider
the other as one I will welcome - if I want to run away or point fingers of disapproval
but instead are reeled into a gracious relationship, how must I change - what must
I give up. That's how I think too often. God as creative hospitality urges me to
see what life I might gain and how I may find a new side to the fullness of God's
image.
O God of love and new life, reel us in and send us out and present us as a gift
to the world in which we move. Amen.
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