The Reign of God as a dove. If you have any comments adebelak@redeemerluth.com . The Reign of God as a dove is able to break through the ripping of the heavens as we heard in the gospel from yesterday. It arrives and hovers and settles down lightly so as to disturb everything with a vision of newness and wholeness. A dove does not come down to threaten or devour or frighten. It comes as a light touch within a world that so often only knows the touch of violence. The Reign of God as a dove brings peace. No other message is delivered. It is the peace that many cannot understand because it is not the peace of a violent world that claims to bring peace but only by way of warfare and fear and coercion. I just wondered if any country has the dove as its symbol. I'm not a bird person so wondered if a dove even has claws that can do anything but hang on a limb. Rather than a bird of prey, the dove comes like prayer that floats over a people and has the power to shape them in the way of gentleness. The Reign of God as a dove is like a promise unfolding and coming to rest on any and all who God claims as characters in a grand drama of peace and wholeness. That is all of us. O God of love and new life, we long to see your Reign fly by to remind us of another way to move along the road today. Teach us, O God, to soar within your peaceable Reign. Amen. |
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