Saturday, October 27, 2007

ten::twentyseven

I do not know what to think this morning. The readings tell me that those in Christ, once dead, are now alive by the Spirit. The Psalmist affirms God created land and all that is on on the waters of chaos, and in them as well. And Then we are to repent at the sound of Jesus' words concerning the guilt we all have. So where are we? Free? Created? Guilty? Can we be all of these at once?

I feel rather free most of the time. I'm aware of the creation, and as such, the Creator. I'm beginning to understand the stories of creation. And I see all around me and inside me how quickly freedom fails and how unaware creatures, well humans, are unrepentant of their ignorance of the creation, choosing hate over love, greed over contentment, acquisition over sharing. And the world falls apart.

But what then of the fig parabolic fig tree? Here is our sign of hope. Somehow, in the midst of this weedy garden, left to destroy itself by the powers, stripped of nutrients by deceived and scared and poor farmers, there is a gardener willing to care about a tree, to work to see it bear fruit. This gardened is freed by the Spirit, seeing the possibility of health in a corrupted plant, the new creation of fleshy fruit. By grace, freedom, guilt, and creation come together to tell as story of renewal and hope, caring love.

Let us seek after this hope. Chaos has been invoked by the powers and state officials, but the children of God, filled with the Spirit know freedom and through us the world can be touched for renewal.

(Romans 8:1-11, Psalm 24, Luke 13:1-9)

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