Good morning…
This week, I have watched footage of the final living Israeli hostages returning to the tearful embrace of their loved ones. On the news, I saw a Palestinian man finally returned to the grounds of his home in Gaza. What was once his special place, a place where he had raised his grown children, was now bombed out rubble, an ashy pile of dust and chalky stone.
“‘Take off your shoes,’ God told Moses. ‘You are standing on holy ground’ (Exodus 3:5, TLB), writes Sue Monk Kidd on page 120 of God’s Joyful Surprise. “He’s probably saying it to all of us all the time, if we would only hear Him. For every ground, even the ground of common experiences, is holy. I think if we ever grasped that fact, we would go barefooted all the time.”
On the ground of bonding prayer, standing in God’s living presence, may we all join the rebuilding process by taking off our shoes.
In him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:27-28, RSV).
…Sue…
