Good morning…
“How many of us find ourselves taking the weight of the world on our shoulders?” Last Sunday afternoon, we read aloud this paragraph from page 198 in our small group study of The Great Spiritual Migration by Brian D. McLaren. “We need to solve climate change. We need to stop nuclear war. We need to end racial and religious bigotry. Before long, we collapse under the weight. We become embittered and break down. We burn out. But then comes the liberating word. I can’t clean up everything. But I can clean out the urinal. I can love this little neighborhood and these few neighbors. I can give this little talk, write this little book, take this little photograph, make this little meal, do this little thing. And if enough of us are freed from the unbearable weight of doing everything and do the one little thing that is ours to do now, then, we can trust, God can get done through us what none of us can do alone. And suddenly, it’s not burdensome work. It’s aliveness. It’s joy. It’s freedom. Instead of playing God, I’m playing with God, at play in God’s good world, where everything is holy.”
I am so grateful to help facilitate book study after book study, day after day, week after week, semester by semester. The words we read aloud and savor together are like spoonfuls of hardy, homemade soup which nourish us for our playful, daily work with God.
Whatever task you must do, work as if your soul depends on it, as for the Lord and not for humans (Colossians 3:23, NRSVUE).
Let’s remind ourselves, in God’s good world, every little thing is holy.
…Sue…
